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

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Tear
• Interventions: Other: conventional in-person; Device: mobile app

• Registration Number: NCT02942940
• Lead Sponsor: University of Toronto Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2016-10
• Study Start: 2016-10
• Study First Submitted: 2016-10-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-10-20
• Study First Posted: 2016-10-24
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-10-24
• Last Update Posted: 2016-10-25
• Primary Completion: 2017-10
• Study Completion: 2018-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 32

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients undergoing ACL reconstruction at Women's College Hospital (WCH), between the ages of 18-70.
• Patients must be able to use a mobile device and communicate in English.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who are smokers, as they carry increased rates of complications.

• Patients must not:

  • Suffer from chronic pain

  • Be taking narcotic (morphine-like) medication for pain on a regular basis, and

  • Have an allergy to local anesthetics or morphine-like medications

    • Pain scores captured in the VAS and QoR-9 are important for judging post-operative recovery. Pre-existing pain or inability to take narcotics post-operatively would compromise the reliability of these measures.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
in-person	conventional in-person	-
mobile app	mobile app	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Required physician visits	6 weeks post surgery	Total number of physician visits (including specialist, family physician, and ER) related to surgery

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health care phone calls	6 weeks post surgery	Total number of health care telephone calls and emails (including specialist, family physician and ER)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Women's College Hospital; 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada