# A Study Comparing Three Methods of Outpatient Follow up After Surgical Admission; Text Message, Phone Call and In-person Appointment

> **NCT04245020** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown** · enrollment: 208 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Outpatients
- Virtual Clinic
- Text Messaging
- General Surgery

## Interventions

- **OTHER:** Text message follow up
- **OTHER:** Telephone follow up
- **OTHER:** In person follow up

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT04245020
- **Lead sponsor:** Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2019-09-16
- **Primary completion:** 2020-06-21
- **Final completion:** 2020-06-21
- **Target enrollment:** 208 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2021-04-26


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04245020

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT04245020, "A Study Comparing Three Methods of Outpatient Follow up After Surgical Admission; Text Message, Phone Call and In-person Appointment". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT04245020. Licensed CC0.

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