Individualised Medication Effectiveness Tests for Chronic Pain.
Completed
- Conditions
- Chronic pain.Alternative and Complementary Medicine - Pain management
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12605000582651
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Queensland
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 180
Inclusion Criteria
A clinical diagnosis of chronic pain with symptoms of sufficient severity to warrant consideration of long-term medication, in the opinion of the attending practitioner. Many such patients may already be on such medication, but either the attending medical practitioner or the patient is uncertain of the effectiveness of their medication or medication dose.
Exclusion Criteria
No exclusion criteria
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To improve therapeutic decision making about chronic pain medications, by educating the doctor and the patient in the use of Individualised Medication Effectiveness Test methodology for objective individual patient decision making[]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate individual patient responses to medication in terms of relief of chronic pain symptoms, and immediate side-effect profile. [Patients record responses to medication in a daily diary, and side-effects are recorded weekly.]