Ke-Xing Lyu|Jing Zhao|Bin Wang|Guanxia Xiong|Weiqiang Yang|Qi-Hong Liu|Xiaolin Zhu|Wei Sun|Aiyun Jiang|Wen Wang|Wen-Bin Lei
Smartphone Application WeChat for Clinical Follow-up of Discharged Patients with Head and Neck Tumors
Sun Yat-sen University|The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University|Sun Yat-sen University|The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University|Sun Yat-sen University|The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University|Sun Yat-sen University|The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University|Peking University Shenzhen Hospital|Guangdong Medical College|Sun Yat-sen University|The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University|Sun Yat-sen University|The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University|Sun Yat-sen University|The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University|Sun Yat-sen University|The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University|Sun Yat-sen University|The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University
background nowadays social media tools short message service twitter video webbased systems used clinical followup making clinical followup much time costeffective ever however popular social media china little known utility smartphone wechat application followup study aimed investigate feasibility superiority wechat application clinical followup methods total 108 patients diagnosed head neck tumor randomized wechat followup wfu group telephone followup tfu group 6month followup followups delivered wechat telephone 2 weeks 1 2 3 6 months patients discharged study measurements time consumption followup delivery total economic cost losttofollowup rate overall satisfaction followup method results time consumption wfu group patient 2336 616 min significantly shorter tfu group 4289 715 min p 0001 total economic cost wfu group rmb 90 yuan much lower tfu group rmb 196 yuan losttofollowup rate wfu group 702 457 compared tfu group 980 551 significance observed 95 confidence interval ci 01762740 p 0732 overall satisfaction rate wfu group 9434 5053 compared 8043 3746 tfu group 95 ci 00570067 p 0034 conclusions smartphone wechat application found viable option followup discharged patients head neck tumors wfu timeeffective costeffective convenient communication doctorled followup model potential establish good physicianpatient relationship enhancing dynamic communications providing individual health instructions trial registration chinese clinical trial registry chictrior15007498 httpwwwchictrorgcnshowprojaspxproj12613