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

University of Toronto Orthopaedic Sports Medicine1 site in 1 country32 target enrollmentOctober 2016

ConditionsAnterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Tear

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Tear
Sponsor: University of Toronto Orthopaedic Sports Medicine
Enrollment: 32
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: Required physician visits
Last Updated: 9 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

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.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

October 2016

End Date

April 2018

Last Updated

9 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

University of Toronto Orthopaedic Sports Medicine

Responsible Party

Sponsor

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•Patients undergoing ACL reconstruction at Women's College Hospital (WCH), between the ages of 18-
•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.