A Smartphone App With a Digital Care Pathway for Patients Undergoing Spine Surgery: Development and Feasibility Study.

Madison Ponder Abena A Ansah-Yeboah Lefko T Charalambous Syed M Adil Vishal Venkatraman Muhammad M Abd-El-Barr Michael M Haglund Peter Grossi Chester Yarbrough Rajeev Dharmapurikar Ziad F Gellad Shivanand P Lad

Published in: JMIR perioperative medicine (2020)

We used a patient-centered approach based on proven behavior change techniques to develop a comprehensive smartphone app for patients undergoing elective spine surgery. The optimized version of the app is ready for formal testing in a larger randomized clinical study to establish its cost-effectiveness and effect on patients' self-management skills and long-term outcomes.

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patients undergoing
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prognostic factors
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randomized controlled trial
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psychometric properties
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