For adults on long-term opioid therapy, use of an e-health self-management chronic pain program can reduce morphine equivalent doses (MEDs) compared with treatment as usual (TAU), according to a new study.
Researchers used electronic health records from 402 outpatients at two U.S. academic healthcare systems between February 2018 and October 2020 to find 105 (almost 54%) of e-health participants reduced daily MED use by 15%, compared with 85 (approximately 42%) of TAU participants (Pain