Adoption of a Postoperative Pain Self-Report Tool: Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With electronic technologies, patients are provided with tools to easily acquire information and to manage and record their own health status. eHealth interventions are already broadly applied to perioperative care. In a similar way, we aimed to utilize a smartphone application to enable postoperative patients to partially self-manage their postoperative pain. The results of a previously performed proof-of-concept study regarding the application were promising, and nurses as well as patients were optimistic regarding this innovative mobile application. Nevertheless, in reality, it appears that the usage and overall implementation of this application have stagnated since its introduction. Problems with innovation adoption are not novel; various studies have been conducted

SUBMITTER: Thiel B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092239 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature