NCT04490798

Effectiveness of Acupuncture Clinical Pathway

A Retrospective Longitudinal Cohort Study to Determine the Effectiveness of Integrated a Clinical Pathway Approach for Chronic Pain Treatment With Acupuncture in a Pain Clinic

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 3,245 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Son Llatzer · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study will be described the development and implementation of the Clinical pathway (CPW) for acupuncture treatment in the management of patients with some chronic pain conditions. The effectiveness of this CPW will be explored in this study through retrospective analysis of clinical outcomes after administration of acupuncture treatment summarised in the guidelines.

Detailed description

This longitudinal, observational, retrospective study included adults (\>18 years) with common chronic pain condition treated at the Son Llàtzer University Hospital Pain Clinic, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, from January 2015 to December 2018. All patients received treatment according to the Acupuncture Clinical Pathway developed. The primary outcome measures will be a change in pain intensity measured by VAS for pain at the completion of treatment. Number of responder patients, reduction of pain medication intake, improve of quality of live scale, sleep quality index and scale of anxiety and depression after treatment are also to be included in the study. The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of integrated a clinical pathway approach for chronic pain treatment with acupuncture in a Pain Clinic.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Lumbar Back Pain
• Osteoarthritis, Knee
• Headache
• Shoulder Pain
• Cervicalgia
• Musculoskeletal Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Electroacupuncture	The electro-acupuncture device was a biphasic pulse generator. It was used with maximum tolerable intensity of current and a frequency of 3 Hz. The points were selected according to the Traditional Chinese Medicine meridian theory to treat the different painful syndromes. Just as in a regular acupuncture treatment, needles are inserted into acupuncture points but small crocodile clips are then attached to the ends of needles to connect them to an electro-acupuncture device. In traditional acupuncture the inserted needles are manually vibrated to induce a response whilst in electro-acupuncture the bi-phasic current results in a constant (controlled) vibration of the needles and a direct electrical stimulation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-06-12
• Primary completion: 2020-12-31
• Completion: 2021-01-15
• First posted: 2020-07-29
• Last updated: 2021-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain