An acute knee injury: tracking a two-year recovery online

Abstract

Current government policy aims to deliver high quality healthcare by recording accurate data at the point of giving care, storing it efficiently and displaying it in a format, which is easily interpreted by healthcare professionals and patients. Few published reports describe the benefits of collecting and reporting such data from the point of view of the patient. We report the case of a 62-year-old lorry driver who used a web-based system to track patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) following an acute knee injury to full recovery over a 24-month period. The system reports clinical outcome scores in real-time to the patient and their medical team, clearly illustrating and enhancing recovery from injury. This case reveals how local software meets the needs of the individual patient linking and integrating such local systems must be the future focus of eHealth within the NHS to release the benefits presented by the information revolution.

What Is the Proportion of Studies Reporting Patient and Practitioner Satisfaction with Software Support Tools Used in the Management of Knee Pain and Is This Related to Sample Size, Effect Size, and Journal Impact Factor?

“…73 Study design may be the influence here, in that single case, validation or cohort studies may be delivered by the developer of the initiative in these reviewed articles. 31,39,52,74,75 This is akin to a pharmaceutical manufacturer not only paying for the research but also administering the drug to the patient, which implicates further bias. 76 The randomised trials within this review fared no better than lower quality designs in terms of reporting, although the single incidence of patient and practitioner satisfaction was an RCT of small sample size in a journal of low impact.…”