Effect of Home Monitoring via Mobile App on the Number of In-Person Visits Following Ambulatory Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In the age of information and patient-centered care, new methods of delivering postoperative care must be developed and evaluated.

Objective

To determine whether follow-up care delivered via a mobile app can be used to avert in-person follow-up care visits compared with conventional, in-person follow-up care in the first 30 days following ambulatory surgery.

Design, setting, and participants

A randomized clinical trial was conducted from February 1 to August 31, 2015, among ambulatory patients undergoing breast reconstruction at an academic ambulatory care hospital. Patients were randomly assigned to receive follow-up care via a mobile app or at an in-person visit during the first 30 days after the operation. Analysis was intention-to-treat.

Main outcome

SUBMITTER: Armstrong KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5547920 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature