Mobile Health App and Web Platform (eDOL) for Medical Follow-Up of Patients With Chronic Pain: Cohort Study Involving the French eDOL National Cohort After 1 Year.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic pain affects approximately 30% of the general population, severely degrades quality of life and professional life, and leads to additional health care costs. Moreover, the medical follow-up of patients with chronic pain remains complex and provides only fragmentary data on painful daily experiences. This situation makes the management of patients with chronic pain less than optimal and may partly explain the lack of effectiveness of current therapies. Real-life monitoring of subjective and objective markers of chronic pain using mobile health (mHealth) programs could better characterize patients, chronic pain, pain medications, and daily impact to help medical management.

Objective

This cohort study aimed to assess the ability of our mHealth tool (eDOL) to

SUBMITTER: Delage N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11208841 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature