September 30, 2011: ASA Newsletter Article Highlights ACTTION
Dr. Denham Ward, a Co-Chair of the ACTTION Executive Committee representing the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), and Drs. Dworkin and Turk, published an article about ACTTION in the September 2011 issue of the ASA Newsletter. The article describes the background, mission, and objectives of ACTTION, and highlights its activities targeting the development of analgesic treatments with improved efficacy and safety. A pdf of the published article is available 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.