Trials / Terminated
TerminatedNCT02026726
Do Oral Steroid Dose Packs Predict How Well Epidural Steroid Injections Will Work?
Oral Steroid Dose Pack Used As A Predictor For The Effectiveness Of Epidural Steroid Injections
- Status
- Terminated
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 10 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The purpose of this observational study is to show whether a standard oral steroid dose pack can be used as a screening tool to assess the effectiveness of a subsequent epidural steroid injection (ESI). If an oral steroid does not give a patient significant temporary relief of pain from a herniated lumbar disc then an epidural steroid injection will not either. Therefore the risk and expense associated from the interventional pain management procedure for those patients could be avoided and other treatment modalities pursued.
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2011-11-01
- Primary completion
- 2020-08-21
- Completion
- 2020-08-21
- First posted
- 2014-01-03
- Last updated
- 2020-08-25
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02026726. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.