Background: Telemedicine is increasingly used to overcome distance between patients and physicians. Preliminary studies suggest that mobile app follow-up care for ACL reconstruction patients is feasible, can avert in-person follow-up care, and is cost-effective. Objective: To avert in-person follow-up through the use of a mobile app in the first six weeks after surgery. Methods: This will be a single-center, prospective randomized controlled trial Results: Data to be analyzed from 72 patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
32
The mobile app follow-up group will have no planned in-person follow-up, however these visits will be replaced with surgical site examination via submitted photos, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), and Quality of Recovery - 9 questionnaire (QoR-9) and limb specific recovery monitoring. All information is submitted with the mobile app (QoC Health Inc, Toronto).
Patients in the conventional follow-up group will have a planned clinic follow-up at 2 and 6 weeks post-operatively, which is the schedule currently used by our surgeons. At these scheduled follow-up visits, patients will be asked to complete the VAS to assess pain and the QoR-9 in addition to recovery questions about their operated extremity.
Women's College Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
RECRUITINGRequired physician visits
Total number of physician visits (including specialist, family physician, and ER) related to surgery
Time frame: 6 weeks post surgery
Health care phone calls
Total number of health care telephone calls and emails (including specialist, family physician and ER)
Time frame: 6 weeks post surgery
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