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Symptom tracking in endometriosis using digital technologies: Knowns, unknowns, and future prospects

Endometriosis is a common chronic pain condition with no known cure and limited treatment options. Digital technologies, ranging from smartphone apps to wearable sensors, have shown potential toward facilitating chronic pain assessment and management; however, to date, many of these tools have not b...

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Autores principales: Edgley, Katherine, Horne, Andrew W., Saunders, Philippa T.K., Tsanas, Athanasios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37729869
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101192
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author Edgley, Katherine
Horne, Andrew W.
Saunders, Philippa T.K.
Tsanas, Athanasios
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description Endometriosis is a common chronic pain condition with no known cure and limited treatment options. Digital technologies, ranging from smartphone apps to wearable sensors, have shown potential toward facilitating chronic pain assessment and management; however, to date, many of these tools have not been specifically deployed or evaluated in patients with endometriosis-associated pain. Informed by previous studies in related chronic pain conditions, we discuss how digital technologies may be used in endometriosis to facilitate objective, continuous, and holistic symptom tracking. We postulate that these pervasive and increasingly affordable technologies present promising opportunities toward developing decision-support tools assisting healthcare professionals and empowering patients with endometriosis to make better-informed choices about symptom management.
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spelling pubmed-105186252023-09-26 Symptom tracking in endometriosis using digital technologies: Knowns, unknowns, and future prospects Edgley, Katherine Horne, Andrew W. Saunders, Philippa T.K. Tsanas, Athanasios Cell Rep Med Perspective Endometriosis is a common chronic pain condition with no known cure and limited treatment options. Digital technologies, ranging from smartphone apps to wearable sensors, have shown potential toward facilitating chronic pain assessment and management; however, to date, many of these tools have not been specifically deployed or evaluated in patients with endometriosis-associated pain. Informed by previous studies in related chronic pain conditions, we discuss how digital technologies may be used in endometriosis to facilitate objective, continuous, and holistic symptom tracking. We postulate that these pervasive and increasingly affordable technologies present promising opportunities toward developing decision-support tools assisting healthcare professionals and empowering patients with endometriosis to make better-informed choices about symptom management. Elsevier 2023-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10518625/ /pubmed/37729869 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101192 Text en © 2023 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Symptom tracking in endometriosis using digital technologies: Knowns, unknowns, and future prospects
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title_full Symptom tracking in endometriosis using digital technologies: Knowns, unknowns, and future prospects
title_fullStr Symptom tracking in endometriosis using digital technologies: Knowns, unknowns, and future prospects
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518625/
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