Using Smartphones to Capture Novel Recovery Metrics After Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patient-generated health data captured from smartphone sensors have the potential to better quantify the physical outcomes of surgery. The ability of these data to discriminate between postoperative trends in physical activity remains unknown.

Objective

To assess whether physical activity captured from smartphone accelerometer data can be used to describe postoperative recovery among patients undergoing cancer operations.

Design, setting, and participants

This prospective observational cohort study was conducted from July 2017 to April 2019 in a single academic tertiary care hospital in the United States. Preoperatively, adults (age ≥18 years) who spoke English and were undergoing elective operations for skin, soft tissue, head, neck, and abdominal cancers

SUBMITTER: Panda N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6820047 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature