NCT05455710

Evaluation of Post-discharge Surveillance Mobile Application for Surgical Site Infection

Evaluation of Post-discharge Surveillance Mobile Application for Surgical Site Infection as a Clinical Decision Support System

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 242 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objective: evaluate the effectiveness and usability of a mobile application for post-discharge surveillance of surgical site infection as a support system for clinical decision.

Detailed description

Introduction: Infection of the surgical site (SSI) is one of the main infections related to health care, culminating in financial losses to the health system and high morbidity and mortality, which due to increasingly shorter hospital stays, from 13 to 75% is manifested at home of the patient, requiring health professionals to act more effectively in post-discharge surveillance of this condition. Therefore, considering this problem and the constant evolution of technological resources, with the increase in access and use of smartphones by the population, it is pertinent to develop a mobile application for post-discharge surveillance of surgical site infection. Objective: evaluate the effectiveness and usability of a mobile application for post-discharge surveillance of surgical site infection as a support system for clinical decision. Method: Randomized Clinical Trial to assess effectiveness of a mobile application for post-discharge surveillance of infection of the surgical site. The study will be developed in a large hospital in the city of São Paulo and the study participants will be surgical patients. Expected results: The mobile application for post-discharge surveillance is expected to collaborate in the early detection of potential cases of surgical site infection, to be able to improve post-discharge surveillance strategies, assist in data management, decision making and actions to prevent infection of the surgical site.

Conditions

• Surgical Wound Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	VigiApp	mobile application containing a patient identification module; post-discharge surveillance questionnaire with questions related to signs and symptoms of SSI previously validated; possibility of attaching and sending a photograph of the surgical wound; field for exchanging messages between professional and patient; issuing an alert / reminder to fill in the data in the application; in addition to establishing interoperability with the system used by the hospital's SCIH, containing a login for each health professional, which allows access to the answers, images and messages sent by surgical patients, categorizing risk and issuing alerts in suspected cases of SSI.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-06
• Primary completion: 2024-11-08
• Completion: 2024-11-08
• First posted: 2022-07-13
• Last updated: 2025-07-18

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Brazil