Standard Telephone Consultation for Pain (STC)

University of Calgary

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Usual family physician care; Behavioral: Physician telephone consultation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01923324

Project ID 18618

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether pain control for patients with chronic pain is improved by the availability of structured telephone consultations between the patients' family physicians and pain physicians, compared to pain control for patients receiving usual care.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients referred to Alberta Health Services chronic pain center in Calgary with neurological or muscular skeletal pain

Exclusion criteria

• increased risk for suicide, very complex patients, family physician could not reliably identify patient's pain problem, or condition warranted expedited consultation with pain physician, case represented a new presentation of chronic regional pain syndrome, or low back pain with radicular symptoms or sciatica

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Physician telephone consultation

Experimental group

Description:

Received direct telephone consultation with pain physician about index patient

Treatment:

Behavioral: Physician telephone consultation

Usual family physician care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Usual family physician care (without direct telephone consultation with pain physician)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual family physician care