March 14, 2016: IMMPACT Meeting on "Accelerating the Development of Precision Pain Medicine"
The 19th meeting of the Initiative on Methods, Measurement, and Pain Assessment in Clinical Trials (IMMPACT) will be held in early June 2016. The objective of the meeting will be to develop recommendations for accelerating the development of precision pain medicine. The meeting will include presentations and discussion on key issues in the conceptualization and design of preclinical research, human experimental studies, and clinical trials that will facilitate the identification and development of mechanism-based treatments for chronic neuropathic and musculoskeletal pain conditions.
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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.