Standard Telephone Consultation for Pain
STC
Physician to Physician Telephone Consultation for Chronic Pain Patients: a Pragmatic Randomized Trial
1 other identifier
interventional
80
1 country
1
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.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for not_applicable chronic-pain
Started Jul 2005
Longer than P75 for not_applicable chronic-pain
1 active site
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
Trial Relationships
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
July 1, 2005
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
December 1, 2010
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
December 1, 2010
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
August 13, 2013
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
August 15, 2013
CompletedAugust 15, 2013
August 1, 2013
5.4 years
August 13, 2013
August 13, 2013
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Numerical Rating Scale for pain intensity (NRS)
11 point scale (from zero to 10), zero equals no pain, 10 worst possible pain.
6 months
Secondary Outcomes (3)
Pain Disability Index (PDI)
6 months
Patient Global Impression of Change Scale (PGIC)
6 months
Short Form Health Survey (SF-36)
6 months
Other Outcomes (3)
Pain treatment satisfaction scale (patient)
6 months
Family physician satisfaction questionnaire
6 months
Family physician knowledge transfer questionnaire
6 months
Study Arms (2)
Physician telephone consultation
EXPERIMENTALReceived direct telephone consultation with pain physician about index patient
Usual family physician care
ACTIVE COMPARATORUsual family physician care (without direct telephone consultation with pain physician)
Interventions
Pain physician support for family physician treating patient
Usual family physician care without telephone consultation with pain physician
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- patients referred to Alberta Health Services chronic pain center in Calgary with neurological or muscular skeletal pain
You may not qualify if:
- 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
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Alberta Health Services Chronic Pain Centre
Calgary, Alberta, T2S 3C3, Canada
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- STUDY DIRECTOR
Neil Drummond, PhD
University of Calgary
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Adjunct Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
August 13, 2013
First Posted
August 15, 2013
Study Start
July 1, 2005
Primary Completion
December 1, 2010
Study Completion
December 1, 2010
Last Updated
August 15, 2013
Record last verified: 2013-08