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Best practices for virtual care to support youth with chronic pain and their families: a rapid systematic review to inform health care and policy during COVID-19 and beyond.

Kathryn A Birnie, Tieghan Killackey, Jennifer Stinson, Melanie Noel, Diane L Lorenzetti, Justina Marianayagam, Isabel Jordan, Evie Jordan, Alexandra Neville, Maria Pavlova and 2 more

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Review in Pain reports. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Coping in youth living with chronic pain: A systematic review of qualitative evidence.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Kathryn A BirnieDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Tieghan KillackeyChild Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jennifer StinsonChild Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Melanie NoelDepartment of Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Diane L LorenzettiDepartment of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Justina MarianayagamHealth Sciences Library & Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB Canada.
Isabel JordanDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Evie JordanDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Alexandra NevilleDepartment of Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Maria PavlovaDepartment of Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Fiona CampbellNorthern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada.
Chitra LallooChild Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Hospital for Sick Children · CANOSM University · CAUniversity of Calgary · CAInstitute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences · CASickKids Foundation · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has acutely challenged health systems and catalyzed the need for widescale virtual care and digital solutions across all areas of health, including pediatric chronic pain. The objective of this rapid systematic review was to identify recommendations, guidelines, and/or best practices for using virtual care to support youth with chronic pain and their families (CRD42020184498). MEDLINE, CINAHL, Embase, APA PsychINFO, and Web of Science were searched the week of May 25, 2020, for English language peer-reviewed articles published since 2010 that (1) discussed children and adolescents aged <18 years reporting any type of chronic pain (ie, pain lasting >3 months); (2) focused on any type of virtual care (eg, telephone, telehealth, telemedicine, mHealth, eHealth, online, or digital); and (3) reported on guidelines, best practices, considerations, or recommendations for virtual care. Abstract and full text screening and data extraction were performed in duplicate. Meta-ethnography was used to synthesize concepts across articles. Of 4161 unique records screened, 16 were included addressing diverse virtual care and pediatric chronic pain conditions. Four key themes were identified: (1) opportunities to better leverage virtual care, (2) direct effective implementation of virtual care, (3) selection of virtual care platforms, and (4) gaps in need of further consideration when using virtual care to support youth with chronic pain and their families. No existing guidelines for virtual care for pediatric chronic pain were identified; however, best practices for virtual care were identified and should be used by health professionals, decision makers, and policymakers in implementing virtual care.

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Best practicesChronic painDigital healthGuidelinesSystematic reviewVirtual careYouth

Identifiers

PMID34104841
PMCPMC8177877
OpenAlexW3170437294

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Registered trials

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