NCT01716780

Pain: Screen and Treat

Towards a Pain Free Hospital: Effect and Cost Effectiveness of Routine Screening and Treatment for Pain in Head and Neck Oncology Outpatients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 156 (actual)
• Sponsor: Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is looking at treating cancer pain in head and neck cancer. Patients are asked in outpatients to score their worst pain on a scale of 0 to 10 in the last 24 hours. Those with a pain score of 4 and above are randomised into the study. Patients are allocated to continue with their current care (control group) or to be reviewed by the pain/palliative care team (intervention group). At baseline questionnaires are completed on level of pain, type of pain, quality of life and anxiety/depression. Information is also collected on the analgesia they've used in the past month and basic health economics (GP/hospital visits related to pain management and treatment). Follow up in the trial is for 3 months and consists of questionnaires as above and further collection of information on analgesic usage and health economics.

Conditions

• Head and Neck Cancer
• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Intervention	Patients allocated to the "intervention group" will undergo prospective, proactive, integrated, structured pain treatment according to recent guidelines on cancer pain care

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-07-01
• Completion: 2012-10-01
• First posted: 2012-10-30
• Last updated: 2012-10-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom