ooking back at health data collected over 9 years to assess the long term effects of using opioids to treat chronic back pai

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• Conditions: Chronic back pain and long term opioid treatment; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Chronic back pain

• Registration Number: ISRCTN69685117
• Lead Sponsor: Danish Victim Fund

Brief Summary

2020 protocol in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32663155/ (added 20/07/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-05-28
• Last Update Posted: 3 August 2020
• Study Completion: 2021-06-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 8000

Inclusion Criteria

1. Aged between 18 and 65 years
2. Experiencing a new pain episode for more than 2 months
3. Presenting at their first outpatient visit at The Spine Centre between 01/11/2012 and 31/12/2013
4. No indications for acute spinal surgery intervention
5. Baseline questionnaires completed with no missing data related to pain intensity

Exclusion Criteria

1. Basis questionnaires not filled out in SpineData
2. Experiencing symptoms, which indicate serious systemic diseases such as cancer, infections, or inflammatory spondylopathies

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified