Observational Study on the Patients With Pain Medications

Johnson & Johnson (J&J)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Other: Observational pain control study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT00771212

CR014656

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to describe the use of pain treatments in Taiwan, the demographics, clinical characteristics of patients requiring pain treatments, current treatments, outcomes of treatments and the reasons for changing pain medication during treatment.

Full description

This is a Phase IV, multi-center, observational study to describe the use of pain treatments, the demographics, clinical characteristics of patients requiring pain treatments, current treatments, outcomes of treatments and the reasons for changing pain medication during treatment. The study is conducted in an effort to understand the status of pain control in Taiwan. Currently in Taiwan, there is no approved documentation showing the most effective standard medication for treatment of patients in pain. Observational study with no study medication administered.

Enrollment: 2,636 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Outpatients only
• Patients must have pain, previously treated with and without medication and have a VAS (Visual analogue scale) score recorded at the enrolment time
• Patient must have a VAS score >4

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who are receiving any investigational drug during the study
• Patients with known or suspected psychotic disease or mental retardation.

Trial design

2,636 participants in 1 patient group

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Treatment:

Other: Observational pain control study