App that helps colon surgery patients prepare for surgery, implement the ERAS protocol, and gather Patient Reported Outcomes in order to improve care and reduce costs
Comprehensive Colon Surgery App The Comprehensive Colon Surgery App is designed to improve the patient care experience, and reduce costs for patients undergoing colon surgery.
App includes:
Clinically validated PRO instruments
Patient check-ins to gather data
Task list to implement Evidence Based ERAS protocol
Simple reminders
Educational Videos
Links to helpful resources
Measurement of activity using mobile phone step counter
Reporting dashboard for care team to view results
Patients Use iPhone to Track Symptoms
How This App Can Help
This App can be customized so care teams can reduce costs and improve quality of care by educating patients, ensuring patients follow pre and post op instructions, and also spot complications earlier.
Patient education, including discussions regarding ostomy site selection if needed, routine postoperative care, recovery milestones, and a review of signs and symptoms that warrant a postdischarge surgical evaluation, helps patients adhere to an ERAS program. This App helps to achieve these goals.
Combined Mechanical and Oral Antibiotic Bowel Preparation Reduces Incisional Surgical Site Infection and Anastomotic Leak Rates After Elective Colorectal Resection: An Analysis of Colectomy-Targeted ACS NSQIP.
Combined bowel preparation with mechanical cleansing and oral antibiotics results in a significantly lower incidence of incisional surgical site infection, anastomotic leakage, and hospital readmission when compared to no preoperative bowel preparation. This App reflects these findings and helps patients adhere.
A fast-track program reduces complications and length of hospital stay after open colonic surgery
Muller S, Zalunardo MP, Hubner M, Clavien PA, Demartines N, Zurich Fast Track Study Group
Gastroenterology - 2009
Multicenter RCT with 156 patients found that patients in the ERAS program had significantly decreased median LOS and fewer postoperative complications. This App reflects this finding
A fast-track program reduces complications and length of hospital stay after open colonic surgery
Muller S, Zalunardo MP, Hubner M, Clavien PA, Demartines N, Zurich Fast Track Study Group
Multicenter RCT with 156 patients found that patients in the ERAS program had significantly decreased median LOS and fewer postoperative complications. This App reflects this finding
Created 2017-06-21
