Standard Telephone Consultation for Pain

Chronic Pain Clinical Trial

— STC  

Official title:

Physician to Physician Telephone Consultation for Chronic Pain Patients: a Pragmatic Randomized Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01923324
• Other study ID #: Project ID 18618
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 13, 2013
• Last updated: August 13, 2013
• Start date: July 2005
• Est. completion date: December 2010

Study information

• Verified date: August 2013
• Source: University of Calgary
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Ethics Review Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 80
• Est. completion date: December 2010
• Est. primary completion date: December 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Pain

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Physician telephone consultation
Pain physician support for family physician treating patient
• Usual family physician care
Usual family physician care without telephone consultation with pain physician

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Alberta Health Services Chronic Pain Centre	Calgary	Alberta

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Calgary

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Pain treatment satisfaction scale (patient)		6 months	No
Other	Family physician satisfaction questionnaire		6 months	No
Other	Family physician knowledge transfer questionnaire		6 months	No
Primary	Numerical Rating Scale for pain intensity (NRS)	11 point scale (from zero to 10), zero equals no pain, 10 worst possible pain.	6 months	No
Secondary	Pain Disability Index (PDI)	7 item self-report scale assessing pain disability	6 months	No
Secondary	Patient Global Impression of Change Scale (PGIC)	7 point scale	6 months	No
Secondary	Short Form Health Survey (SF-36)	Generic quality of life scale.	6 months	No