Help Veterans Experience Less Pain Study (HELP-Vets)
Completed
Conditions studied: Pain, Heart Failure, Congestive, Signs and Symptoms
In brief
Our purpose is to evaluate the reliability and validity of the '5th vital sign' in everyday practice settings and to compare the relationship of pain to other symptoms and pain treatment in patients with cancer, CHF, and patients with complex general medical illness and poor self-reported health.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00230932
- Run by
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
- People needed
- 654
- Starts
- 2005-10-01
- Expected to finish
- 2008-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-04-07
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients seeking care in VA outpatient primary care, oncology, cardiology, or community based outpatient clinics, for advanced cancer, congestive heart failure, and advanced, complex general medical illness stratified by self-reported health.
- Patients will be screened for fair or poor general medical health status, health conditions (cancer, CHF), cognition and ability to complete a researcher-assistant guided survey (e.g., hearing intact).
- All nursing staff and pain treatment staff (resident and staff physician, PA, NP) in general medicine, oncology, and cardiology care at selected study sites and related community-based clinics will be asked to participate.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients who are hearing and/or cognitively impaired.
- Patients who do not speak English.
Where it is running
- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA — West Los Angeles, California, United States
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