A smartphone-based pain management app for adolescents with cancer: Establishing system requirements and a pain care algorithm based on literature review, interviews, and consensus

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jibb, Lindsay A ^a,b   Stevens, Bonnie J ^a,b   Nathan, Paul C ^a,c   Seto, Emily ^c,d   Cafazzo, Joseph A ^c,d   Stinson, Jennifer N ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Algorithms; Cellular phone; Neoplasms; Pain

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099716937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.3041     Document Type: Review

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