Virtual reality for management of pain in hospitalized patients: A randomized comparative effectiveness trial

Spiegel, Brennan; Fuller, Garth; Lopez, Mayra; Dupuy, Taylor; Noah, Benjamin; Howard, Amber; Albert, Michael; C. Tashjian, Vartan; Y. Lam, Richard; Ahn, Joseph; Dailey, Francis; T. Rosen, Bradley; S. Vrahas, Mark; T. M. Little, Milton; Garlich, John; Dzubur, Eldin; William IsHak, Waguih; Danovitch, Itai

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0219115

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Virtual reality for management of pain in hospitalized patients: A randomized comparative effectiveness trial

Published in PLoS ONE • Aug 14, 2019

Authors:

Brennan Spiegel

Garth Fuller

Mayra Lopez

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Therapeutic virtual reality (VR) has emerged as an effective, drug-free tool for pain management, but there is a lack of randomized, controlled data evaluating its effectiveness in hospitalized patients. We sought to measure the impact of on-demand VR versus "health and wellness" televis...

Subject

Randomized controlled trial

Pain management

Medicine

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