ReviewFrontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland)2023
Digital health in pain assessment, diagnosis, and management: Overview and perspectives.
Review in Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Influence of Mobile Health Interventions on Aftercare and Medication Use for Patients With Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health · 2026Review
- The Need for Continued Investment in Digital Pain Assessment.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Digital Pain Assessment: Patient and Family Perspectives.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence, Informatics, and Pain in Aging.Clinics in geriatric medicine · 2026Review
- Digital Approaches to Pain Assessment Across Older Adults: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Leveraging artificial intelligence to optimize neuromodulation in the treatment of patients with chronic pain.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Exploring the predictive capacity of smartphone-based digital phenotyping to monitor pain and physical quality of life in advanced cancer patients, family caregivers, and dyads.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Postoperative pain management in children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Cultural tailoring of pain management approaches: a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- eHealth interventions for chronic pain: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.MethodsX · 2025Article
- Digital health solutions for caregivers of children experiencing acute pain: a scoping review.Pain reports · 2025Review
- Bridging the GAP: a critical analysis of pain management services in the United Kingdom.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Article
- The Added Value of Digital Body Chart Pain Surface Assessment as an Objective Biomarker: Multicohort Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Observational
- Zoom-Delivered Empowered Relief for Chronic Pain: Observational Longitudinal Pilot Study Exploring Feasibility and Pain-Related Outcomes in Patients on Long-Term Opioids.JMIR formative research · 2025Observational
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- Strategies to optimise the health equity impact of digital pain self-reporting tools: a series of multi-stakeholder focus groups.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Perspectives and Experiences on eHealth Solutions for Coping With Chronic Pain: Qualitative Study Among Older People Living With Chronic Pain.JMIR aging · 2024Article
- Innovative Applications of Telemedicine and Other Digital Health Solutions in Pain Management: A Literature Review.Pain and therapy · 2024Review
- Further Clarification of Pain Management Complexity in Radiotherapy: Insights from Modern Statistical Approaches.Cancers · 2024Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Managing pain is essential for social, psychological, physical, and economic reasons. It is also a human right with a growing incidence of untreated and under-treated pain globally. Barriers to diagnosing, assessing, treating, and managing pain are complicated, subjective, and driven by patient, healthcare provider, payer, policy, and regulatory challenges. In addition, conventional treatment methods pose their own challenges including the subjectivity of assessment, lack of therapeutic innovation over the last decade, opioid use disorder and financial access to treatment. Digital health innovations hold much promise in providing complementary solutions to traditional medical interventions and may reduce cost and speed up recovery or adaptation. There is a growing evidence base for the use of digital health in pain assessment, diagnosis, and management. The challenge is not only to develop new technologies and solutions, but to do this within a framework that supports health equity, scalability, socio-cultural consideration, and evidence-based science. The extensive limits to physical personal interaction during the Covid-19 pandemic 2020/21 has proven the possible role of digital health in the field of pain medicine. This paper provides an overview of the use of digital health in pain management and argues for the use of a systemic framework in evaluating the efficacy of digital health solutions.
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