40 Chapter 2 Study Country Study design Control group Follow -up Surgical procedure Participants App category Main app functions Study outcomes Type N= Age Lee 2022 a Canada Prospective Cohort Yes 30 days Colorectal Surgery Patients 70; 35 59; 55 Monitoring - Self-reported assessment on symptoms - Education material - Photograph function - Chat functionality with HCP’s - Similar postoperative outcomes with control group Eustache 2021 a Canada Prospective & retrospective cohort Yes 30 days Colorectal surgery Patients 94; 256 55; 56 Monitoring - Self-reported assessment on symptoms - Education material - Photograph function - Chat functionality with HCP’s - Usability score of 84.5 (0-100) - Significant decrease in potentially preventable 30-day emergency visits (incidence rate 0.34) - Significant decrease in length of stay (3.2 vs 4.6 days) - No difference other postoperative outcomes Agri 2020 Switzerland Retrospective Cohort No 30 days Colorectal surgery Patients 43 54 Monitoring - Self-reported assessment on symptoms - Informative library - Alert messages which was send to HCP’s - Overall completion of daily assessments of 72% - 4/5 level of patient satisfaction (30% completed the questionnaire) - All postoperative outcomes were detected - Median response time of 90 minutes of the HCP
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