Patterns of user engagement with the mobile app, manage my pain: Results of a data mining investigation

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Rahman, Quazi Abidur ^a   Janmohamed, Tahir ^b   Pirbaglou, Meysam ^a   Ritvo, Paul ^a   Heffernan, Jane M ^a   Clarke, Hance ^c   Katz, Joel ^a,c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Unit 4   (Canada)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Cluster analysis; Data mining; Manage My Pain; Mhealth; Opioid use; Pain app; Pain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031762785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.7871     Document Type: Article

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