April 26, 2018: ACTTION to Present at World Congress of Pain, Boston
Shannon Smith, PhD, ACTTION Senior Assistant Director, and colleagues have had a presentation accepted for the World Congress on Pain, to be held in Boston from September 12-16, 2018. The presentation describes the results of a systematic review of methodologic and statistical characteristics of randomized clinical trials designed to test non-inferiority or equivalence of pain treatments. The full reference for the presentation follows: Smith SM, Gewandter JS, Chaudari J, McDermott MP, Gilron I, Kitt R, Koch J, Majeed Z, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. Trials designed to test non-inferiority or equivalence of two pain treatments: an ACTTION systematic review.
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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.