Use of Mobile App Home Monitoring After Ambulatory Surgery Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Effect of Mobile App Home Monitoring on the Number of In-Person Visits Following Ambulatory Surgery: A Randomized Control Trial
| Verified date | October 2015 |
| Source | Women's College Hospital |
| Contact | n/a |
| Is FDA regulated | No |
| Health authority | Canada: Institutional Review Board |
| Study type | Interventional |
This study evaluate if in an ambulatory breast reconstruction patient population at Women's College Hospital (WCH), can we avert in-person follow-up care through the use of mobile app home monitoring compared to conventional, in-person follow-up care in the first 30-days following surgery.
| Status | Completed |
| Enrollment | 70 |
| Est. completion date | August 2015 |
| Est. primary completion date | August 2015 |
| Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
| Gender | Female |
| Age group | 18 Years and older |
| Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Patients undergoing breast reconstruction at Women's College Hospital. They must be able to use a mobile device and communicate in English. Exclusion Criteria: - They must be non-smokers because smokers carry increased rates of complication and both surgeons have a policy to solely operate on non-smokers (minimum smoke-free period of one month leading to surgery). Pain ratings captured in the VAS and QoR9 are important for judging quality of postoperative recovery. Pre-existing pain or an inability to take narcotics would compromise the reliability of these measures. Therefore, patients must not suffer from chronic pain. They must not be taking narcotic (morphine-like) medication for pain on a regular basis. They must not have an allergy to local anesthetics or morphine-like medications. Accommodation of special populations: Patients with hearing or speaking impairments will be accommodated with the help of translator. The person who regularly attends visits with her will facilitate this, or if no such person is available, we will use a hospital translator. All patients will receive an explanation of the study and the consent form in writing. All material will be understandable by patients with a grade 6 reading level. If our patients have lower than a grade 6 reading level, we will ask them if there is a family member at home who could assist them with the use of the mobile device. |
Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
| Country | Name | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | Women's College Hospital | Toronto | Ontario |
| Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
|---|---|
| Women's College Hospital | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) |
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| Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary | The total number of physician visits related to the surgery | The total number of physician visits will include visits to the specialist, family physician, and emergency department related to surgery. This data will be captured by patient survey at two- and four-weeks after surgery. | 30 days | No |
| Secondary | The total number of health care telephone calls and emails related to the surgery. | The total number of health care telephone calls and emails will include specialist, family physician, and emergency services. This data will be captured by patient survey at two- and four-weeks after surgery. | 30 days | No |
| Secondary | Number of complications | We will record and report all complications occurring within the 30-day period. This was chosen based on literature surrounding postoperative complications in the first 30-days (4). This will be captured by patient survey at two- and four-weeks after surgery. | 30 days | No |
| Secondary | Societal and healthcare system costs | A societal perspective will be adopted wherein all cost are assessed irrespective of the payer. This perspective was chosen based on the US Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine recommendations. This recommendation is meant to improve comparability and consistency across studies (5). Furthermore, while a broad societal perspective will be adopted, results will also be presented using a narrower health system perspective that may be of key interest to health administrators and policy decision makers. This alternative perspective focuses on costs borne within the health system and excludes external costs as well as costs borne by patients and their caregivers. | 30 days | No |
| Secondary | Patient satisfaction | Currently, there are no validated questionnaires that capture patient satisfaction with postoperative care. We have created a post-pilot survey that captures patient satisfaction with the care and information received. All answers are recorded using a 5-point likert scale. This will be captured at four-weeks after surgery. We will also use the QoR-9 scores and pain VAS scores recorded at one- and four-weeks postoperative. Psychometric properties of the QoR9 include convergent validity and discriminant construct validity. There is also good interrater agreement and internal consistency. The test-retest reliability was 0.61 (p<0.0001). The preferred cut-off is 0.7; however, the QoR9 was still favoured over the quality of recovery-40 (QoR40) questionnaire due to its ease of use (< 2 minutes required to complete the survey) (6). This will be captured in both groups at one- and four-weeks after surgery. | 30 days | No |