NCT04245020

A Study Comparing Three Methods of Outpatient Follow up After Surgical Admission; Text Message, Phone Call and In-person Appointment

An Open Label Randomised Control Trial Comparing Three Methods of Outpatient Follow up After Surgical Admission in Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown; Text Message, Phone Call and In-person Appointment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 208 (actual)
• Sponsor: Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study compares three different methods of outpatient follow up after surgical admission to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown. The three arms of the study are text message, telephone call or in-person outpatient follow up. Data will be collected to identify complications identified in each arm along with the rate of non-response to the follow up methods and the level of satisfaction with the method. Willingness to use a telemedicine app in the future will also be evaluated through satisfaction survey.

Detailed description

This is a non-blinded, single centre open randomised control trial of the outpatient follow up method following surgical admission to Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown. All eligible patients will be randomised into three arms, text message, telephone or in-person follow up. The follow up will be carried out at 6-8 weeks following discharge. The rate of complications, the non-response rate and the level of satisfaction will be compared between the three groups. Willingness to use a telemedicine app in the future in place of an in-person follow up will also be measured by patient satisfaction questionnaire.

Conditions

• Outpatients
• Virtual Clinic
• Text Messaging
• General Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Text message follow up	A text message will be sent to the patient 6-8 weeks following discharge
OTHER	Telephone follow up	The patient will be followed up at 6-8 weeks following discharge with a telephone call
OTHER	In person follow up	The patient will be followed up at 6-8 weeks following discharge in person in the outpatient department

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-16
• Primary completion: 2020-06-21
• Completion: 2020-06-21
• First posted: 2020-01-28
• Last updated: 2021-04-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ireland