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Digital behavioral pain medicine intervention improve patients skills towards post operative use of opioids

Posted on November 14, 2019May 14, 2020

A digital behavioral pain medicine intervention effectively addresses post-surgical pain, enhance recovery, and potentially accelerate opioid cessation after breast cancer surgery. Darnall and the team conducted a randomized clinical trial to compare the digital behavioral pain medicine intervention (“My Surgical Success” [MSS]) with digital general health education (HE) at Stanford University, USA. The study included 127 participants randomized into two […]

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Patient education material is a key for health literacy

Posted on October 16, 2019May 15, 2020

Patient education material (PEM) is a key for improving health literacy skill in field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Han A and team conducted a study to evaluate whether the patient education materials (PEM) in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) meets the NIH-recommended eighth-grade reading level. It also comparedthe PM&RPEM with handouts from American Academy […]