Standard Telephone Consultation for Pain

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic Pain
• Interventions: Behavioral: Physician telephone consultation; Behavioral: Usual family physician care

• 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

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-07
• Primary Completion: 2010-12
• Study Completion: 2010-12
• Status Verified: 2013-08
• Study First Submitted: 2013-08-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-08-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-08-13
• Study First Posted: 2013-08-15
• Last Update Posted: 2013-08-15

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

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Physician telephone consultation	Physician telephone consultation	Received direct telephone consultation with pain physician about index patient
Usual family physician care	Usual family physician care	Usual family physician care (without direct telephone consultation with pain physician)

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