April 1, 2015: ACTTION Participates in FDA Workshop on Clinical Outcomes Assessment

Robert Dworkin, PhD, and Dennis Turk, PhD, ACTTION Director and Associate Director, were panelists at an FDA Public Workshop on "Clinical Outcomes Assessment Development and Implementation: Opportunities and Challenges." The workshop provided an opportunity for multiple stakeholders to discuss the FDA Clinical Outcomes Initiative, which includes the development of a compendium of clinical outcome assessments and other efforts to advance scientific standards and policy development.

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ACTTION Guide to Clinical Trials of Pain Treatments

The ACTTION Guide to Clinical Trials of Pain Treatments consists of two supplements published in the journal Pain Reports that include a series of articles describing research designs and methods, study conduct, outcome measures, data analyses and interpretation, and reporting recommendations for clinical trials of acute and chronic pain treatments.

Part I includes 9 articles that can be found here, and Part II includes 6 articles that can be found here.