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Jeffrey J Stewart1, Islam Fayed2, Shawnda Henault1
1Miscellaneous, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC, USA.
Background:
Smartphone applications (apps) are being increasingly utilized in the health care arena to improve patient care and outcomes.
Objective:
To further demonstrate the ability of a smartphone app to improve patient compliance with preoperative instructions and to decrease the number of last-minute surgery cancellations.
Methods:
Patients undergoing spine surgery were prospectively accrued. Smartphone app users were compared to non-app users. Patient adherence with preoperative instructions as well as last-minute surgery cancellations were analyzed.
Results:
All 85 app users adhered to preoperative instructions according to the acknowledgements sent to the web portal, and there were no cancelled surgeries. Among the 89 non-app users, there were five cancelled surgeries (5.6%).
Conclusions:
We demonstrate the ability of a smartphone application to improve patient adherence with preoperative instructions and decrease last-minute surgery cancellations.
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