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Currently submitted to: Journal of Medical Internet Research

Date Submitted: Sep 15, 2025

Warning: This is an author submission that is not peer-reviewed or edited. Preprints - unless they show as "accepted" - should not be relied on to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information.

A Comparative Study of Classic versus Telemedicine Care Pathways in Rare skin diseases

  • céline Granier Tournier; 
  • Anne-Marie Tranier; 
  • Margot Merlos; 
  • Hélène Derumeaux; 
  • Benoît Lepage; 
  • Isabelle Dreyfus; 
  • Juliette Mazereeuw-Hautier

ABSTRACT

This randomized study found that while a telemedicine-based care pathway for rare skin diseases did not reduce hospital visits, it reshaped care organization by increasing nurse coordination and direct hospital admissions, highlighting the need for new models such as tele-expertise and AI integration.


 Citation

Please cite as:

Granier Tournier c, Tranier AM, Merlos M, Derumeaux H, Lepage B, Dreyfus I, Mazereeuw-Hautier J

A Comparative Study of Classic versus Telemedicine Care Pathways in Rare skin diseases

JMIR Preprints. 15/09/2025:84121

DOI: 10.2196/preprints.84121

URL: https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/84121

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