NCT02942940

Conventional Follow-up Versus Mobile App For Post-Operative ACL Reconstruction Patients

Conventional Follow-up Versus Mobile App Home Monitoring For Post-Operative Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Reconstruction Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Toronto Orthopaedic Sports Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Background: Telemedicine is increasingly used to overcome distance between patients and physicians. Preliminary studies suggest that mobile app follow-up care for ACL reconstruction patients is feasible, can avert in-person follow-up care, and is cost-effective. Objective: To avert in-person follow-up through the use of a mobile app in the first six weeks after surgery. Methods: This will be a single-center, prospective randomized controlled trial Results: Data to be analyzed from 72 patients.

Conditions

• Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Tear

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	mobile app	The mobile app follow-up group will have no planned in-person follow-up, however these visits will be replaced with surgical site examination via submitted photos, Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), and Quality of Recovery - 9 questionnaire (QoR-9) and limb specific recovery monitoring. All information is submitted with the mobile app (QoC Health Inc, Toronto).
OTHER	conventional in-person	Patients in the conventional follow-up group will have a planned clinic follow-up at 2 and 6 weeks post-operatively, which is the schedule currently used by our surgeons. At these scheduled follow-up visits, patients will be asked to complete the VAS to assess pain and the QoR-9 in addition to recovery questions about their operated extremity.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-10-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2018-04-01
• First posted: 2016-10-24
• Last updated: 2016-10-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada