Patient-Centered Pain Care Using Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Health Tools: Protocol for a Randomized Study Funded by the US Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Program

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Piette, John D ^a,b,c   Krein, Sarah L ^b,c   Striplin, Dana ^a,b   Marinec, Nicolle ^a,b   Kerns, Robert D ^d,e   Farris, Karen B ^f   Singh, Satinder ^f   An, Lawrence ^c   Heapy, Alicia A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical Informatics; mhealth; artificial intelligence; comparative effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047730597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.4995     Document Type: Article

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