Standard Telephone Consultation for Pain

NCT ID: NCT01923324

Last Updated: 2013-08-15

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

80 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2005-07-31

Study Completion Date

2010-12-31

Brief Summary

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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

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Conditions

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Chronic Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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Physician telephone consultation

Received direct telephone consultation with pain physician about index patient

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Physician telephone consultation

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Pain physician support for family physician treating patient

Usual family physician care

Usual family physician care (without direct telephone consultation with pain physician)

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Usual family physician care

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Usual family physician care without telephone consultation with pain physician

Interventions

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Physician telephone consultation

Pain physician support for family physician treating patient

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Usual family physician care

Usual family physician care without telephone consultation with pain physician

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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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
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Calgary

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Dr. Sue Ross

Adjunct Professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Neil Drummond, PhD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University of Calgary

Locations

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Alberta Health Services Chronic Pain Centre

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

Other Identifiers

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Project ID 18618

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id