With advances in mobile application, digital health is being increasingly used for remote and personalised care. Patient education, self-management and tele communication is a crucial factor in optimising outcomes. We explore the use of a smartphone app based orthopaedic care management system to deliver personalised surgical experience, monitor patient engagement and functional outcomes of patients undergoing knee arthroplasty.Introduction
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Recruitment of patients to participate in Randomised control trials (RCTs) is a challenging task, especially for trauma trials in which the identification and recruitment are time-limited. Multiple strategies have been tried to improve the participation of doctors and recruitment of patients. To study the effect of a trainee advocate (trainee Principal investigator-tPI) on influencing junior doctors to take part in trials and its effect on recruitment for a multicenter prospective hip fracture RCT.Abstract
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