Retrospective Evaluation of ASIPP Guidelines Implementation

Guideline Implementation Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Implementation of American Society of Interventional Pain Physician Guidelines for Interventional Techniques: A Retrospective Evaluation

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00372164
• Other study ID #: protocol 14
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 1, 2006
• Last updated: October 20, 2015
• Start date: January 1998
• Est. completion date: July 2005

Study information

• Verified date: October 2015
• Source: Pain Management Center of Paducah
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

To demonstrate clinically significant improvements in the patients treated following ASIPP guidelines compared to the patients who were treated prior to the establishment of ASIPP guidelines.

Description:

We have performed one study in the past showing that the implementation of guidelines improved outcomes by reducing the number of procedures and also the cost. However,, no large scale study has been performed thus far.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: July 2005
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Evaluate all patients undergoing the following interventional techniques during 1999 and 2000 compared to patients undergoing interventional techniques during 2004 and 2005

• Cervical facet joint nerve blocks

• Thoracic facet joint nerve blocks

• Lumbar facet joint nerve blocks

• Lumbar interlaminar epidural steroid injections

• Cervical interlaminar epidural steroid injections

Exclusion Criteria:

Non-availability of appropriate data

Study Design

Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Guideline Implementation

Intervention

Procedure:
• American Society of Interventional Pain Physician Guidelines

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Ambulatory Surgery Center	Paducah	Kentucky

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Pain Management Center of Paducah

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States,