“There’s a Pain App for That”
Clinical Journal of PainPublished 5 November 2014
Chitra Lalloo, Lindsay Jibb, Jordan Rivera, Arnav Agarwal, Jennifer Stinson
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Currently available pain self-management apps for patients are simplistic, lack the involvement of health care professionals in their development, and have not been rigorously tested for effectiveness on pain-related health outcomes.
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Currently available pain self-management apps for patients are simplistic, lack the involvement of health care professionals in their development, and have not been rigorously tested for effectiveness on pain-related health outcomes. There is a need to develop and test theoretically and evidence-based apps to better support patients with accessible pain care self-management.
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