Application-based Perioperative Management of the Radical Cystectomy Patient

University of Kansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bladder Cancer

Treatments: Other: LifeScience Technologies application

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02942121

STUDY00003585

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to learn whether it is feasible to use the LifeScience Technologies application (LST app) in patients undergoing radical cystectomy with the eventual goal to reduce complications and readmissions to the hospital after surgery.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of recurrent Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) or Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer (MIBC) and are candidates for radical cystectomy
• Subjects must have an internet connection and be able and willing to use an applicable device. If patients do not have an applicable device, they must be willing to borrow an iPad from the study team (to be returned at the conclusion of the study).

Exclusion criteria

• No internet access

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

LST App

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will use the LifeScience Technologies application (LST app) before surgery, and post surgery. Participants will use the app as an educational tool to learn more about their surgery. Participants will also answer questions about themselves in the app.

Treatment:

Other: LifeScience Technologies application