Standard Telephone Consultation for Pain
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Chronic Pain
- Registration Number
- NCT01923324
- Lead Sponsor
- University of Calgary
- 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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 80
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
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Numerical Rating Scale for pain intensity (NRS) 6 months 11 point scale (from zero to 10), zero equals no pain, 10 worst possible pain.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patient Global Impression of Change Scale (PGIC) 6 months 7 point scale
Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) 6 months Generic quality of life scale.
Pain Disability Index (PDI) 6 months 7 item self-report scale assessing pain disability
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Alberta Health Services Chronic Pain Centre
🇨🇦Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Alberta Health Services Chronic Pain Centre🇨🇦Calgary, Alberta, Canada