Physician to Physician Telephone Consultation for Chronic Pain Patients: a Pragmatic Randomized Trial

University of Calgary1 site in 1 country80 target enrollmentJuly 2005

ConditionsChronic Pain

Overview

Phase: N/A
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Chronic Pain
Sponsor: University of Calgary
Enrollment: 80
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: Numerical Rating Scale for pain intensity (NRS)
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 12 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether pain control for patients with chronic pain is improved by the availability of structured telephone consultations between the patients' family physicians and pain physicians, compared to pain control for patients receiving usual care.

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

July 2005

End Date

December 2010

Last Updated

12 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

University of Calgary

Responsible Party

Principal Investigator

Dr. Sue Ross

Adjunct Professor

University of Calgary

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

•patients referred to Alberta Health Services chronic pain center in Calgary with neurological or muscular skeletal pain

Exclusion Criteria

•increased risk for suicide, very complex patients, family physician could not reliably identify patient's pain problem, or condition warranted expedited consultation with pain physician, case represented a new presentation of chronic regional pain syndrome, or low back pain with radicular symptoms or sciatica