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Smartphone Application: A Possible Solution for Follow up of Patients With Hip Arthroplasty

NCT04688840 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 167

Last updated 2020-12-30

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Introduction: Over the last decades, telemedicine has been used in many surgical aspects. Its role in postoperative follow up is of significant interest with a remarkable success. Since the appearance of COVID-19, the challenge is how to follow the recommendations of World Health Organization which stressed on the importance of social distancing to avoid infection and at the same time provides satisfactory medical services. This study was done to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of Whatsapp social media program in postoperative follow up of patients with primary hip arthroplasty at the time of pandemic

Conditions

  • Telemedicine

Interventions

PROCEDURE

hip arthropalsty

follow up of patients with primary hip arthroplasty with at least one year follow up electronically and by routine method

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tanta University

    lead OTHER

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-01-01
Primary Completion
2020-09-01
Completion
2020-12-01

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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