Impact of 4PCP on Practitioner and Patient Outcomes
Active, not recruitingNot applicableNCT05580419
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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)
Reducing opioid prescribing and improving outcomes in patients with chronic pain would benefit our nation. Neither addiction nor chronic pain spares any race, gender, or particular socio-economic status. This study is investigating a potentially inexpensive way of providing a previously costly service (the intensive chronic pain rehabilitation program), which is why insurers stopped covering it. Although it is unusual for an application from an academic institution to include a startup company (PainSTakers, LLC) as the curriculum provider, this is actually a long-term strength of this program, and the reason NIH recommended this route. It ensures that 4PCP will ultimately sustain itself rather than require government support for its continuation. Support for this application is not to provide the curriculum, but to determine if it is effective in the outcomes expected to be found. The curriculum is being provided freely only as an incentive for practitioners to participate in the research portion of the study. If the study is able to demonstrate its clinical effectiveness, the next step will be to show a positive economic impact for health care institutions and for health insurers who may then wish to support the program for their practitioners and their patients.
Study details
- Official title
- Impact of a Novel Community-Based Biobehavioral Chronic Pain Team Training Program (4PCP) on Practitioner and Patient Outcomes
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: 4PCP Course
- Sponsor
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Collaborators
- Medical College of Wisconsin; Case Western Reserve University; SSM Health; Wisconsin Research and Education Network; Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Start date
- 2023-03-17
- Primary completion
- 2027-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 14 Years to 80 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 4
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Practitioner Inclusion: * General practitioners * Part of a practice that has their own identifiable patient population including patients with chronic pain * Able to fully answer questionnaires * Able to attend 4PCP course * English speaking Patient inclusion: * Age 14-80 * Self-report of chronic non-malignant pain \> 3 months * No foreseeable or planned surgeries for chronic pain * Has attended at least 2 established visits in the enrolled practitioner's practice * English speaking Practitioner exclusion: * Pain specialists * Unable to fully answer questionnaires * Unable to attend the 4PCP course * Non-English speaking Patient exclusion: * Unable to answer questionnaires (e.g. stroke, dementia, developmental delay, etc.) * Followed in a specialty pain clinic (PCP not managing pain care) * Sickle cell disease * Prisoners * Non-English speaking
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05580419