Comparison of a Mobile Health Electronic Visual Analog Scale App With a Traditional Paper Visual Analog Scale for Pain Evaluation: Cross-Sectional Observational Study.

Alexandra Turnbull Dean Sculley Carles Escalona-Marfil Lluís Miquel Riu-Gispert Jorge Ruiz-Moreno Xavier Gironès Garcia Andrea Coda

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)

The eVAS app appears to be interchangeable compared with the traditional pVAS among children, adolescents, and adults. This pain evaluation method may offer new opportunities to introduce user-friendly and validated pain assessment apps for patients, clinicians, and allied health professionals.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
young adults
cross sectional
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
physical activity
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
postoperative pain