Improving Cancer Pain Management Using AHCPR Cancer Pain Guidelines

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Cancers, Pain

In brief

Cancer pain is a pervasive problem for the person with cancer. Despite advances in knowledge, effective cancer management is infrequently achieved. While this problem is multi-factorial, the patient may have attitudinal barriers to effective pain management that can be ameliorated with novel interventions.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00012896

Run by

US Department of Veterans Affairs

People needed

320

Expected to finish

2004-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-04-07

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients must have a medical diagnosis of cancer, be experiencing pain as a result of their cancer or cancer treatment, be receiving treatment on an out-patient basis whereas they are taking their own medications, have a life expectancy of at least 6 months, have access to a telephone, are able to read and speak English, and do not have a drug abuse history.

Where it is running

• VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA — Palo Alto, California, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.