Virtual Assistant for Plastic Surgery Patients

Mayo Clinic

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Surgery

Treatments: Other: Artificial Intelligence Virtual Assistant

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04017351

19-001980

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers are trying determine the long term impact when patients have access to the artificial intelligence virtual assistant (AIVA) as a complimentary resource.

Full description

Eligible subjects will be randomized into to two groups. One group of subjects will be given access to the AIVA will be instructed to ask, at home, questions regarding the planned surgery to the AIVA application on their mobile phone. The other group will be instructed to call to the Standard of Care call center with questions related to their treatments. Researchers will follow up with all subjects from both groups for a 1 year amount of time.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects above 18 years old
• Able to use applications on mobile phones and consent to participate
• Adult subjects in the Plastic Surgery outpatient clinic of Mayo Clinic Florida

Exclusion criteria

-

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Subjects with virtual assistance

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects receiving current standard of care for a surgical procedure within the department of plastic surgery will have access to artificial intelligence virtual assistance (AIVA)

Treatment:

Other: Artificial Intelligence Virtual Assistant

Subjects without virtual assistance

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects receiving current standard of care for a surgical procedure within the department of plastic surgery