Use of mobile health technologies for postoperative care in paediatric surgery: A systematic review.
Nam NguyenEtienne LeveilleElena GuadagnoLuc Malemo KalisyaDan PoenaruPublished in: Journal of telemedicine and telecare (2020)
Studies showed that mHealth systems can increase the postoperative follow-up appointment attendance rate (p < 0.001), decrease the rate of postoperative complications and returns to the emergency department and reliably monitor postoperative pain. mHealth systems were generally appreciated by patients. Most non-randomised and randomised studies had many methodological problems, including lack of appropriate control groups, lack of blinding and a tendency to devote more time to the care of the intervention group. mHealth systems have the potential to improve postoperative care, but the lack of high-quality research evaluating their impact calls for further studies exploring evidence-based mHealth implementation.
Keyphrases
- emergency department
- healthcare
- quality improvement
- palliative care
- patients undergoing
- clinical trial
- postoperative pain
- end stage renal disease
- open label
- case control
- study protocol
- newly diagnosed
- primary care
- affordable care act
- pain management
- intensive care unit
- chronic kidney disease
- placebo controlled
- prognostic factors
- coronary artery disease
- patient reported outcomes
- risk assessment
- climate change