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Editorial
. 2020 Nov;125(5):657-660.
doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.08.003. Epub 2020 Aug 10.

Digital health for patients with chronic pain during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lydia W Li  1 , Alton M K Chew  2 , Dinesh V Gunasekeran  3
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Editorial

Digital health for patients with chronic pain during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lydia W Li et al. Br J Anaesth. 2020 Nov.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; artificial intelligence; chronic pain; digital health; online health communities; pain; telehealth.

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Singapore's digital solution AskDr to address the ‘infodemic’. AskDr is a free digital tool for patient-led medical discussions with involvement of verified providers (from professional medical registers) as moderators for crowd-sourced, scalable, transparent, and data-driven public health promotion with gamification to encourage public and provider contributions.
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