Feasibility study: one year fortnightly follow-up of the evolution of supra-spinatus degeneration via text-messages
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Feasibility study: one year fortnightly follow-up of the evolution of supra-spinatus degeneration via text-messages Karl Vincent1,2* , Olivier Gagey1 and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde1,2,3
Abstract Background: The clinical follow-up of patients for degeneration of the supraspinatus tendon is limited by the lack of objective assessment of pain evolution over time. We therefore tested a new method to collect follow-up data on patients treated either by surgical cuff repair or rehabilitation. Objectives: We report the feasibility this method in terms of recruitment of clinicians and patients and their compliance. Methods: In this multicenter longitudinal observational study, between September 2015 and March 2019, patients consulting either for surgical repair or rehabilitation were examined at baseline and after twelve months by their clinician, including the Mini-DASH questionnaire. Fortnightlys, during one year, patients were asked about number of days their shoulder problem affected their daily life, number of nights woken up from shoulder pain, and present pain score, using text-messages for sending and responding to questions. A system administrator supervised responses and non-compliant subjects were contacted and assisted with the procedure. The CONSORT statement for pilot studies was followed. Results: Four of 11 invited clinicians accepted participation and collected data till the end. Of the 410 patients we originally planned for, 252 were included in the study, but complete data for the clinicians’ follow-up at 12 months were missing for 30. Of the 222 subjects with SMS data files, 190 (85%) provided at least 80% of their fortnightly messages. All three SMS messages were answered equally often. In total, 160 study subjects answered at least 80% of times and had clinical data at twelve months, i.e. 39% of the intended study sample and 72% of the 222 subjects with SMS data. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 ED 566, Université Paris-Saclay, 15 r Georges Clemenceau, 91405 Paris, Orsay, France 2 Institut Franco-Européen de Chiropraxie, 24 Bd Paul-Vaillant-Couturier, 94200 Toulouse, Ivry-sur-Seine, France Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020, corrected publication 2020. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permissio
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