Comparison of Follow-up by Mobile App or Paper Questionnaire of Patients Undergoing Rotator Cuff Surgery (OFUE)

L'Institut de Recherche en Chirurgie Orthopédique et Sportive

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rotator Cuff Injuries

Treatments: Device: Orthense, Orthense, Digikare Inc. Blagnac, France; Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04359160

2020 0016 J

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluate if in an outpatient rotator cuff surgery, can the use of mobile app compared to conventional paper questionnaire improve follow-up care in the first 90-days following surgery.

Full description

Rotator cuff surgery is a painful arthroscopic surgery. In outpatient surgery, the surgeons have to increase the security and surveillance after the surgery to reassure the patient and avoid complications.

Most patients receiving ambulatory rotator cuff surgery have high pain score, and management and aspects of the rehabilitation can be challenging. However, regular follow-up is still considered important in the early post-operative phase. In between the conventional appointment 6 weeks post op and 12 weeks post op, the surgeons have no status of the patient, and no markers to check if the postoperative care is evolving right.

Currently, the investigators are using a mobile application (Orthense by Digikare, Blagnac, France) to complement in-person postoperative follow-up care for patients.

Enrollment: 59 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing rotator cuff surgery. They must be able to use a mobile-app, and have an email address and internet connexion.

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to read French

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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59 participants in 2 patient groups

Mobile-app follow-up

Experimental group

Description:

The mobile app follow-up group will receive an email, to connect into a secure website. They will answer to periodical questions about their condition. They will have a medical appointment at 6 weeks postoperative and 12 weeks postoperative. All of this information is submitted via the mobile application (Orthense, Digikare Inc. Blagnac, France).The surgeon will have an access to the answer of the patient in real time, and if the patient didn't answer.

Treatment:

Device: Orthense, Orthense, Digikare Inc. Blagnac, France

Conventional follow-up

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients in the conventional, questionnaire follow-up group will have the same periodical questions but on paper. They will have to stick personally with the schedule without any reminders. They will have a medical appointment at 6 weeks postoperative and 12 weeks postoperative where they have to bring the questionnaire.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire