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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a systematic approach to pain assessment in the critically ill patients' outcome The investigators hypothesize that, patients who will undergo systematic pain assessment and they will have their results notified to physicians and nurses, will demonstrate favorable effects on pain intensity, more efficient use of sedatives and analgesics, duration of mechanical ventilation, length of ICU stay, mortality, adverse events and complications, in relation to patients who will receive standard care alone. Moreover it is expected that they will demonstrate altered levels of plasma neuropeptides and biochemical markers in peripheral blood.


Clinical Trial Description

Appropriate pain management depends on the systematic and comprehensive assessment of pain. Inaccurate pain assessment and the resulting inadequate treatment of pain in critically ill adults can have significant physiological and psychological consequences.

The investigators will examine whether a systematic pain assessment approach can improve patients outcomes.

120 ICU patients will be randomized either to control or intervention group. The control group will receive standard care plus pain assessments but nurses and physicians will be blind of these results. The intervention group will receive standard care plus systematic pain assessment and the results will be notified to nurses and physicians. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care


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NCT number NCT02435589
Study type Interventional
Source Cyprus University of Technology
Contact Evanthia G Georgiou, PhD Cand
Phone 0035722603049
Email evagrn@spidernet.com.cy
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date March 2015
Completion date May 2016

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