September 20, 2012: ACTTION Establishes Working Group on Analgesic Comparative Effectiveness and Pragmatic Trials (ACEPT)

The Analgesic Comparative Effectiveness and Pragmatic Trials (ACEPT) Working Group is ACTTION’s newest Working Group. ACEPT is co-chaired by Drs. Mike Rowbotham and Ajay Wasan, and the group has begun its activities by preparing a manuscript that reviews comparative effectiveness and pragmatic studies of pain treatments. If you are interested in joining the ACEPT Working Group, please submit your CV here.

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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.