July 9, 2012: New ACTTION Initiative on Patient and Staff Training to Improve Assay Sensitivity in Analgesic Trials
ACTTION is launching an initiative to develop training materials for clinical trial subjects (and staff) to be used with pain rating scales and other pain-related patient reported outcomes. This initiative will be an ongoing effort led by the “Pain-Related Outcomes Training and Evaluation for Conducting Clinical Trials” (PROTECCT) Working Group, and once materials have been developed and evaluated, proof-of-concept trials will be conducted to test the hypothesis that patient and staff training can improve the assay sensitivity of analgesic trials.
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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.