A smartphone app with a digital care pathway was developed and deemed feasible for patients undergoing elective spine surgery, warranting further randomized testing.
We used a patient-centered approach based on proven behavior change techniques to develop a comprehensive smartphone app for patients undergoing elective spine surgery. The optimized version of the app is ready for formal testing in a larger randomized clinical study to establish its cost-effectiveness and effect on patients' self-management skills and long-term outcomes.
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