Strategy to track double-J stents placed during COVID-19 using smartphone-based stent tracker application to prevent forgotten double-J stent in a high-volume centre: a smart solution.
Abhirudra MulayRohit KapoorSonu SharmaShashikant AsabeHareesh BelagaliSiddharth SinghVikram SatavVilas SabalePublished in: African journal of urology : the official journal of the Pan African Urological Surgeons' Association (PAUSA) (2021)
It significantly reduced the number of physical visits of the patient to the hospital and provided a more streamlined tracking of the indwelling stents for the user; patient compliance was found to be almost 98%; being cloud based (android/iOS), it was easily accessible to the user; and with the option of sharing the account details, the patient record could be accessed by several residents from their individual devices, which significantly reduced loss to follow-up rates from 9 to 2%.