April 26-29, 2018: ACTTION at American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), Vancouver
A symposium focusing on the ACTTION-American Pain Society-AAPM Pain Taxonomy (AAAPT) for acute pain was chaired by Patrick Tighe, MD, and included presentations by him, Stephen Bruehl, PhD, and Carleton Dampier, MD, who discussed progress in the development of new taxonomies of pain, research methods for validating novel diagnostic criteria, and recent diagnostic criteria for acute and chronic pain associated with sickle cell disease.
Patrick Tighe, MD, received an AAPM Presidential Commendation in recognition of his contributions to the development of the AAAPT acute pain taxonomy and multidimensional framework and to the AAPM acute pain special interest group and journal, Pain Medicine.
Robert H. Dworkin, PhD, ACTTION Director, received the AAPM Founders Award, which is given "for outstanding contributions to the science or practice of pain medicine. This award is given for continued contributions for the basic or clinical science of pain medicine or for demonstration of clinical excellence or innovation in the practice of pain medicine."
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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.