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Safety of BTDS in Subjects With Low Back Pain: A 52-Week Extension Phase of BUP3015

TerminatedPhase 3NCT01125917
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.

Brief summary (from the registry)

The purpose of the extension phase is to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of buprenorphine transdermal system (BTDS). Subjects begin the extension phase on BTDS 5 mcg/h and may up- or down-titrate the dose \[up to BTDS 20 micrograms (mcg) / hour (h)\] depending on adequate pain relief and tolerability.

Study details

Official title
A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Active Comparator Study to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of BTDS 20 or Oxycodone Immediate-Release Vs Buprenorphine Transdermal System (BTDS) 5 in Subjects With Moderate to Severe Low Back Pain: A 52-Week Open-label Extension Phase of BUP3015
Sponsor
Purdue Pharma LP
Start date
2004-06
Primary completion
2005-09
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years
Results posted
Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
Countries
United States
Total sites listed
84

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Subjects who completed all visits of the double-blind phase on study drug, and subjects who discontinued study drug due to lack of therapeutic effect in the double-blind phase but completed all visits of the double-blind phase off study drug are eligible to enroll in the extension phase. * For subjects entering the extension, 4 electrocardiograms (ECGs) are required at entry if none were collected prior to randomization while on BTDS 20. NOTE: Subjects with any 1 QT data corrected for heart rate using the Fridericia formula (QTcF) interval ≥ 500 milliseconds (msec) would be discontinued from the extension phase Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects requiring long-acting opioid analgesics \[once- or twice-daily dosing with a every (q) 24 hours (h) or q12h drug\] or transdermal fentanyl during the extension phase should be discontinued from the study.

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01125917