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Self Medication With Oral Morphine After Total Knee Arthroplasty.

NCT01226186 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 144

Last updated 2012-12-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study aims to compare two post operative pain management strategy's, traditional nurse dispensed pain control versus patient self medication. The investigators aim to establish if patients who self medicate have differing pain levels than those who take nurse dispensed oral morphine.

Conditions

  • Arthroplasty, Knee Replacement
  • Pain Control

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nurse dispensed oral morphine.

Nurse will dispense oral morphine on request from the patient.

BEHAVIORAL

Patient self medication of oral morphine.

Patients will self medicate their oral morphine pain control solution following surgery.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • The Royal Bournemouth Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jonathan Linton, Doctor · Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-10-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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