The efficacy of telemedicine for pain management in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

"The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article."

"Funding: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Scientific Technology Plan Program for Healthcare in Zhejiang Province (Number 2021KY1100). Jiaxing Science and Technology Plan Project (Number 2022AD30055). The Key Discipline of Jiaxing Genral Practice Medicine Construction Project (Number 2023-fc-002). The Key Laboratory of Precision Therapy for Lung Cancer in Jiaxing. The fund was not involved in any study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, report writing, and article submission for publication."

"The present study was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement and has been registered in Prospero in advance (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/; CRD42022361990). PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and Clinical Trials were searched. The time limit for the search was set from 1977 to 16 August 2022. Only articles published in English were included. The subject terms Telemedicine, Neoplasms, and Pain as well as free terms related to these subject terms were used for retrieval. For specific retrieval strategies, see the supplementary materials. We reviewed the list of references of all major studies, as well as the references of other review articles. When duplicate publications of the same trial were found, the most complete, recent, and updated version was included. Registration:: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/; CRD42022361990"