Description
Objectives:
To determine feasibility of using a mobile application to guide parents in pain managmeent of their children post tonsillectomy.
Methods:
Parents were asked to assess and record pain intensity and medication use using a mobile application.
Results:
The application was used a median of 4 days. Only 36% of patients used oxycodone post operatively. Of these, 90% took fewer than 10 doses.
Conclusion:
From our pilot, there appears an opportunity to reduce opioid prescribing.
Describe the new knowledge and additional skills the participant will gain after attending your presentation.: At the end of the presentation the participant will learn about:
-how mHealth can be used for patient-reported outcomes post operatively
-how mHealth can be used for decision support to guide parents in pain managmenet of their children post operatively
-how our health system employed mHealth to gain new insights for QI and patient safety
Authors:
Tokunbo Akande (Presenter)
University of Washington
Dwight Barry, Seattle Children's Hospital
Wendy Swanson, Seattle Children's Hospital
Ann Maruhashi, Seattle Children's Hospital
Travis Thurber, Seattle Children's Hospital
Steven Lundgren, Seattle Children's Hospital
Yooli Hardy, Seattle Children's Hospital
Stefania Guarda, Seattle Children's Hospital
Lauren Mikell, Seattle Children's Hospital
Sanjay Parikh, Seattle Children's Hospital
Michael Leu, Seattle Children's Hospital
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