Clinical efficacy of virtual reality for acute procedural pain management: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

BACKGROUND:Acutely painful procedures are commonplace. Current approaches to pain most often involve pharmacotherapy, however, there is interest in virtual reality (VR) as a non-pharmacological alternative. A methodologically rigorous systematic review and meta-analysis is lacking. METHODS:Following...

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Main Authors: Evelyn Chan, Samantha Foster, Ryan Sambell, Paul Leong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6063420?pdf=render