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Stepped Care to Optimize Pain Care Effectiveness

NCT00926588 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 250

Last updated 2015-08-07

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Summary

Pain is the most common physical symptom in primary care, accounting for an enormous burden in terms of patient suffering, quality of life, work and social disability, and health care and societal costs. Pain is particularly prevalent among veterans. Four major barriers to optimal care include underdetection of pain, inadequate initial treatment, failure to monitor adherence and symptom response, and failure to adjust treatment in patients not responding or intolerant of initial therapy. Therefore, we propose to conduct the Stepped Care to Optimize Pain care Effectiveness (SCOPE) study, a randomized clinical effectiveness trial in primary care.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Stepped care

Structured algorithms for stepped care analgesic management and explicit decision rules for adjusting treatment are new tools developed for this study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Kurt Kroenke, MD · Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2015-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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