ArticleCanadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie
Can a mobile app technology reduce emergency department visits and readmissions after lung resection? A prospective cohort study.
Article in Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Readiness for implementation of novel digital health interventions for postoperative monitoring: a systematic review and clinical innovation network analysis.The Lancet. Digital health · 2023Pooled it
- Enhancing Quadruple Health Outcomes After Thoracic Surgery: Feasibility Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Using Digital Home Monitoring.JMIR perioperative medicine · 2025Trial
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of a smartphone-based educational intervention on the outcomes of children's burns: A randomized controlled trial.International wound journal · 2024Trial
- [Evaluation of Multimodal Perioperative Care Pathway Supported by a Patient-facing Mobile App in Colorectal Surgery - First Clinical Experience and Patient Satisfaction].Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie · 2026Observational
- Social contributions as risk factors for readmissions after lung transplantation: Clinical and financial implications.JHLT open · 2025Article
- How safe is it to discharge home patients with a chest tube in place? A narrative review of the literature.European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery · 2025Review
- An institutional analysis of hospital readmission following a robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Article
- Experiences of receiving an mHealth application with proactive nursing support among community-dwelling older adults: a mixed-methods study.BMC nursing · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
13 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundEmergency department (ED) visits and readmissions after thoracic surgery are a major health care problem. We hypothesized that the addition of a novel post-discharge mobile app specific to thoracic surgery to an existing home care program would reduce ED visits and readmissions compared to a home care program alone.
methodsWe conducted a prospective cohort study of patients undergoing major lung resection for malignant disease between November 2016 and May 2018. Patients received either home care alone (control group) or home care plus a patient-input mobile app (intervention group). Primary outcomes were 30-day readmission and ED visit rates. Secondary outcomes included reasons for ED visits and readmissions, perioperative complications, 30-day mortality, anxiety (assessed with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 Scale [GAD-7]) and app-related adverse events. We compared outcomes between the 2 groups, analyzing the data on an intention-to-treat basis.
resultsDespite the greater number of open surgery and anatomic resections in the intervention cohort, patients in that group were less likely than those in the control group to visit the ED within 30 days of discharge (24.0% v. 38.8%,
conclusionThe addition of a mobile app to a home care program after thoracic surgery was associated with a reduced frequency of ED visits, in spite of the higher proportions of thoracotomies and anatomic resections in the app cohort. More studies are needed to evaluate the full effect of this new, emerging technology.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.