Open AccessIs Activity Tracker–Measured Ambulation an Accurate and Reliable Determinant of Postoperative Quality of Recovery? A Prospective Cohort Validation Study
Author(s) -
Faraj Massouh,
Rachel Martin,
Bokman Chan,
Julia Ma,
Vikita Patel,
Michael Geary,
John G. Laffey,
Duminda N. Wijeysundera,
Faraj W. Abdallah
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0000000000003913
Subject(s) - medicine , activity tracker , confidence interval , prospective cohort study , intraclass correlation , reliability (semiconductor) , physical therapy , spearman's rank correlation coefficient , cohort , correlation , surgery , physical activity , statistics , psychometrics , clinical psychology , power (physics) , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics
Quality of recovery (QOR) instruments measure patients' ability to return to baseline health status after surgery. Whether, and the extent to which, postoperative ambulation contributes to QOR is unclear, in part due to the lack of valid tools to measure ambulation in clinical settings. This cohort study of the cesarean delivery surgical model examines the accuracy and reliability of activity trackers in quantifying early postoperative ambulation and investigates the correlation between ambulation and QOR.