Standard Telephone Consultation for Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT01923324
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Brief summary (from the registry)
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.
Study details
- Official title
- Physician to Physician Telephone Consultation for Chronic Pain Patients: a Pragmatic Randomized Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Physician telephone consultation
- Behavioral: Usual family physician care
- Sponsor
- University of Calgary
- Start date
- 2005-07
- Primary completion
- 2010-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Canada
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
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
Canadian sites (1)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01923324