Digital health interventions for perioperative patient-reported outcomes: a network meta-analysis - PubMed
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- Digital health interventions (DHIs) improve perioperative patient-reported outcomes (PROs).
- Extended reality (XR) effectively reduces perioperative anxiety (moderate-certainty evidence).
- Mobile applications and XR are probably effective for postoperative pain relief (moderate-certainty evidence).
- 2D video yields the greatest gain in quality of life (high-certainty evidence).
- XR improves patient satisfaction (moderate-certainty evidence).
- 56 randomized controlled trials involving 6,154 patients were analyzed.
- Standardized mean differences (SMDs) and mean differences (MDs) were used for analysis.
- Risk of bias was assessed using RoB 2, and certainty of evidence with GRADE.