Abstract TP309: The Role of Teleconsultation in Acute Stroke Trial Enrollment

Background: A major barrier to enrollment into acute stroke clinical trials is timely access to a tertiary care center conducting the study. Tertiary centers often receive the majority of their patients through broad referral networks. Remote consent via telephone, telemedicine or web-based technology are strategies that have been suggested to broaden enrollment. There is limited data on the feasibility and efficacy of those methods. Methods: There are 19 telemedicine sites and 23 non-telemedicine sites in our network. We describe our experience with screening and enrolling patients into acute stroke clinical trials via our referring network. Based on mode of presentation, we divided all patients enrolled in trials into 3 cohorts; direct presentation with no prior consultation, transfer after consultation by telephone only and transfer after full telemedicine consultation. We classified trials based on required timeframe of enrollment into urgent and non-urgent. We used two-way ANOVA to compare the differ...