The effectiveness of extended care based on Internet and home care platform for orthopaedics after hip replacement surgery in China

Journal of Clinical Nursing
Jie WangLuoluo Gao

Abstract

To evaluate the effect of an Internet-based home orthopaedic care platform on patients' functional joint recovery, quality of life and activities of daily living after hip replacement. Most of the functional exercises after arthroplasty are performed outside the hospital. At present, the WeChat platform is used mainly in the inland of China for continuous nursing of patients with chronic disease in the Department of Orthopedics. An experimental design was applied. Four hundred patients who had undergone hip replacement from April to October 2016 were selected from 18 hospitals with nurse specialists in clinical orthopaedics. These patients were randomised into control and intervention groups (n = 200 per group). In the control group, only routine nursing care was carried out after discharge. In the intervention group, continuous intervention was performed via the Internet-based orthopaedic care platform. The patients in the two groups were compared in terms of functional recovery (Harris hip score), quality-of-life score (MOS SF-36) and activities of daily living (Barthel index) at 3 and 6 months after discharge. In total, 389 patients were enrolled in this study. There were no significant differences in the baseline data betwe...Continue Reading

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