Smartphone data for PROMS following Joint Replacement?
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Using Smartphones to Monitor Response to the Surgical Treatment - Can Smartphone data correlate with standard ‘Patient Reported Outcome Measures’ assessing success of Total knee Replacements?
IRAS ID
235888
Contact name
Timothy Baker
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Cambridge University Hospital Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 2 months, 15 days
Research summary
The study aims to determine if we can measure the extent to which surgical treatment improves health using data that is automatically collected on a smartphone. \n\nIt is important that the evaluation of surgical success is focused on individual patients rather than just population and economic evaluations but this is difficult because of the extensive resources required for this. >80% of the population own a personal smartphone, these devices contain sensors that continuously and accurately monitor activity levels. They can not only measure actual activity levels i.e. the number of steps taken or flights of stairs climbed, but also to measure implied activity for example whether somebody is back at work using assumptions based on GPS data.\n\nThe intention of this study is to ascertain if it is possible to objectively measure, using smartphones, the response to surgery and whether this change correlates with changes documented using standard measures, for example the EQ 5D score routinely used as a patient report outcome measure (PROM).
REC name
London - Bloomsbury Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/LO/0457
Date of REC Opinion
15 Mar 2018
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion