Table 3.
Waiting time to specialist, consultation time and clinical management of headache patients by neurologist and randomized to either video or face-to-face consultations.
| Baseline | 12-month follow-up | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video (n = 200) | Face-to-face (n = 202) | p-value | Video (n = 151) | Face-to-face (n = 140) | p-value | |
| Waiting time to specialist, days, mean (SD) | 63.6 (29.5) | 60.6 (26.5) | 0.295 | 63.4 (29.5) | 59.4 (26.8) | 0.234 |
| Consultation time, total, minutes, mean (SD) | 38.8 (9.5) | 43.7 (12.3) | < 0.001 | 39.4 (9.6) | 43.6 (11.2) | < 0.001 |
| Diagnostic change by specialist, n (%) | 43 (21.5) | 40 (19.8) | 0.713 | 30 (19.9) | 27 (19.3) | 1.0 |
| Additional headache diagnosis given, n (%) | 109 (54.5) | 118 (58.4) | 0.481 | 76 (50.3) | 80 (57.1) | 0.290 |
| Drug treatment initiated, total, n (%) | 164 (82.0) | 166 (82.2) | 1.0 | 123 (81.5) | 113 (80.7) | 0.882 |
| Patients satisfied with consultation, n (%) | 158 (79.0) | 156 (77.2) | 0.278 | 134 (88.7) | 127 (90.7) | 0.719 |
Baseline and 12-month follow-up data are presented with mean (SD) or numbers (%). SD, standard deviation.