Telementoring for improving primary care provider knowledge and competence in managing chronic pain: A randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Primary care providers are frequently unprepared to manage chronic pain adequately due in part to insufficient professional training. This study evaluated the effect of a telementoring intervention on knowledge and perceived competence related to chronic pain management.

Methods

The study design was a cluster randomised controlled trial. Primary care clinics that were part of the University of Washington Medicine Telehealth network were the unit of randomization. Primary care providers comprised the intervention group (n = 23) and the control group (n = 18). Providers in the intervention group attended telementoring sessions through the TelePain programme and presented patient cases at the beginning and end of their enrolled patients’ 12-week study period. TeleP

SUBMITTER: Eaton LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10802791 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature