Abstract: With the development of mobile technology, mobile APPs entered into the medical field. This review introduced the general characteristics, available interventions, and effects of mobile APPs implementation. Through this review, we summarized the limitations of current APPs and provided evidence to improve designs to meet different needs of patients with chronic pain. We look forward to a larger scale of implementation of mobile APPs with good reliability to improve patients' quality of life.

Key words: mobile APP; chronic pain; self-management; implementation