NCT05783440

Direct Patient Feedback on Postoperative Pain

Smartphone Reported Direct Patient Feedback on Postoperative Pain That is Directly Passed on to Surgical Ward Nurses, Effects on Patient Reported Postoperative Pain Outcomes and Pharmaco-therapy. A Prospective, Randomized, Single-blinded, Controlled Tria

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 600 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Medical Center Groningen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Postoperative pain is common, can be severe, has a negative impact on outcomes after surgery and brings along major economic costs for society. A substantial part of patients may develop persistent post-surgical pain. Severity and duration of pain after surgery appear to have a role in this process but the transition from acute postoperative pain to chronic pain is only partially understood. Effective treatment of postoperative pain is hampered by several barriers, including the way measurement of pain and registration of pain-scores are carried out by nurses in clinical practice. Modern technology offers new opportunities for pain measurement and direct patient feedback on postoperative pain, during and also after clinical admission. We developed a smartphone application that allows clinical patients to report pain scores and other pain related outcomes on postoperative pain with their own telephone device. Patient reported pain scores \> 3 on a Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) 0-10 are immediately passed on to the nurse who receives a message of the reported pain score. This can lead to earlier detection of pain and a more timely treatment resulting in improved patient reported outcomes on postoperative pain

Detailed description

Postoperative pain is common, can be severe, has a negative impact on outcomes after surgery and brings along major economic costs for society. A substantial part of patients may develop persistent post-surgical pain. Severity and duration of pain after surgery appear to have a role in this process but the transition from acute postoperative pain to chronic pain is only partially understood. Effective treatment of postoperative pain is hampered by several barriers, including the way measurement of pain and registration of pain-scores are carried out by nurses in clinical practice. Modern technology offers new opportunities for pain measurement and direct patient feedback on postoperative pain, during and also after clinical admission. We developed a smartphone application that allows clinical patients to report pain scores and other pain related outcomes on postoperative pain with their own telephone device. Patient reported pain scores \> 3 on a Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) 0-10 are immediately passed on to the nurse who receives a message of the reported pain score. This can lead to earlier detection of pain and a more timely treatment resulting in improved patient reported outcomes on postoperative pain

Conditions

• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	direct patient feedback	Participants in the intervention group report postoperative pain scores and other pain related outcomes with their own smartphone. Pain scores reported by smartphone \> 3 (NRS 0-10) are immediately passed on to the nurse who will receive a notification on a smartphone. All patient reported pain-scores by smartphone are stored in a database that is not accessible to medical or nursing staff from the nursing ward.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-06
• Primary completion: 2024-01-01
• Completion: 2025-01-01
• First posted: 2023-03-24
• Last updated: 2023-03-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Netherlands