Smartphone Application WeChat for Clinical Follow-up of Discharged Patients With Head and Neck Tumors: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Initiatives
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In this study, the feasibility and superiority of WeChat application in clinical follow-up was investigated.
Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.
- Start Year
- 2015
- End Year
- 2015
- Funding
- This work was partially supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81072224).
Design
- Study design
- Clinical trial cohort
Marker Paper
Lyu KX, Zhao J, Wang B, et al. Smartphone Application WeChat for Clinical Follow-up of Discharged Patients with Head and Neck Tumors: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Chin Med J (Engl). 2016;129(23):2816‐2823. doi:10.4103/0366-6999.194635
PUBMED 27900995
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 108
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Timeline
patients diagnosed with head and neck tumor
A total of 108 patients diagnosed with head and neck tumor were randomized to WeChat follow-up (WFU) group or telephone follow-up (TFU) group for 6-month follow-up.
Selection Criteria
- Newborns
- Twins
- Countries
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- China
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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- patients diagnosed with head and neck tumor
Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- Clinical patients
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 108
- Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Event
In this study, we aimed to investigate the feasibility and superiority of WeChat application in clinical follow-up.
- Start Date
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2015-04
- End Date
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2015-10
- Data sources
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Mobile data collection
- Mobile phone
- Smartphone
- Smartphone apps
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Mobile data collection