Could your phone replace a Post-Surgery eye check?
NCT ID NCT06429527
First seen Jun 24, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether a smartphone app (WHOeyes) plus a symptom questionnaire can safely replace the standard in-clinic checkup one week after cataract surgery. About 334 people aged 50–80 with uncomplicated cataracts will either use the app at home or come to the clinic. The goal is to see if remote follow-up is just as safe, more cost-effective, and better for the environment.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- WHOeyes app and questionnaire
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could allow many cataract patients to skip a routine in-person visit, saving travel time and reducing healthcare costs and carbon footprint.
- What could go wrong
- This is a relatively small trial (334 people) and only tests one-week follow-up after uncomplicated surgery. The app may miss complications that a doctor would catch in person.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 334 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Dec 2024
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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50 to 80 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Senile cataract patients undergoing Phaco + IOL implantation under local anesthesia. 2. Between 50 and 80 years of age, regardless of gender. 3. The subject or their family members own a smartphone, understand and can correctly install and use the WHOeyes app for vision testing under the guidance of a physician. 4. Able to understand and cooperate with the trial procedures, voluntarily participate in this clinical trial, and sign an informed consent form. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Had other serious eye diseases in addition to cataract, including: 1. Chronic or recurrent eye diseases of the study eye, such as keratitis or corneal malnutrition, iritis, scleritis, uveitis, iridocyclitis. (Note: refractive errors, dry eye, chronic conjunctivitis, and mild pterygium are not exclusionary. 2. Active ocular infection or inflammation in either eye. 3. Episode of acute uveitis within the past 6 months in either eye. 4. Intraocular pressure \>21mmHg or a history of glaucoma in the study eye. 5. Presence of unstable active lesions or other ocular diseases of the study eye that, in the investigator's judgment, could potentially interfere with the study evaluation or compromise subject safety (e.g., moderate to severe diabetic retinopathy, wet age-related macular degeneration, retinal detachment). 6. Congenital abnormalities in the study eye (e.g., congenital cataracts, aniridia). 7. Corrected visual acuity in the non-study eye \<0.1 (20/200). 2. History of ocular trauma in the study eye. 3. History of ocular surgery in the study eye, such as glaucoma surgery, vitrectomy, corneal refractive surgery, corneal transplantation. 4. Scheduled ocular surgery in either eye during the study period, such as trabeculectomy, corneal transplantation. 5. Occurrences of intraoperative and postoperative complications (e.g., elevated intraocular pressure, corneal edema) in the study eye within 1 day after cataract surgery. 6. Corrected visual acuity of the study eye less than 0.5 (20/40) on postoperative day 1. 7. With severe chronic systemic diseases or are susceptible to infection, including: 1. Poorly controlled diabetes (fasting blood glucose \>10 mmol/L). 2. Poorly controlled hypertension (systolic blood pressure\>160mmHg or diastolic blood pressure\>100mmHg). 3. Ongoing systemic treatment for infectious diseases; 4. Presence of cachexia or bone marrow suppression. 5. Confirmed diagnosis of AIDS or positive test results for HIV antibodies. 6. Presence of severe cardiovascular, pulmonary, hepatic, renal, endocrine, immune, dermatological, musculoskeletal, neurological, or psychiatric diseases, hearing impairment, or mobility impairment, as deemed unsuitable for participation in this trial by the investigator. 8. Participation in other clinical trials within the last 30 days (excluding those who only participated in screening process without receiving any investigational drugs or devices). 9. Have pre-planned hospital visits during the study period, other than those required for postoperative follow-ups of the study eye; 10. Any other condition or circumstance that, in the investigator's judgment, makes the patient unsuitable for participation in this trial. Note: The study eye refers to the eye that underwent cataract surgery and is included in this study.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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How to take part
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-Sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510000, China
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