Retrospective Evaluation of ASIPP Guidelines Implementation

Pain Management Center of Paducah

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Guideline Implementation

Treatments: Procedure: American Society of Interventional Pain Physician Guidelines

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00372164

protocol 14

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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