A Novel Mobile Phone Text Messaging Platform Improves Collection of Patient-Reported Post-operative Pain and Opioid Use Following Orthopedic Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prospective collection of patient-reported opioid consumption and pain levels post-surgically may hold value in highlighting solutions related to the opioid crisis. Traditional methods for collecting patient-reported outcomes after surgery, such as paper surveys, often have poor response rates, and electronic messaging may offer more convenience and therefore yield more robust data.

Questions/purposes

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether a novel mobile phone short message service (SMS) platform would lead to better patient response rates to surveys on pain and opioid use than data-collection tools.

Methods

An SMS text messaging platform was created and implemented between September 2017 and May 2018 at an orthopedic specialty hospital. The purp

SUBMITTER: Premkumar A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6384206 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature