Clinical evidence for this app would be limited purely because...

Clinical evidence for this app would be limited purely because it is not as black and white as a cough where the patient either has a sickness or not. Currently there is no standardised measurement to assess whether or not a patient is experiencing pain - and there cant be for these types of patients because they cannot communicate.

The current Abbey pain scale is very subjective. From an article last year “We think it could be an absolute game changer and set the gold standard in that there should be an objective way in which to determine the presence of pain in people who have communication difficultly,” Prof Hughes

Also from their website - There have been years of scientific research from world leaders in the assessment and detection of pain for ePat. They have clearly found common denominators in patients which experience pain, whether its facial cues, noises or movements.

I think these are new roads being travelled on with ePat leading the way.