Interdisciplinary team-based care for patients with chronic pain on long-term opioid treatment in primary care (PPACT) - Protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic pain is one of the most common, disabling, and expensive public health problems in the United States. Interdisciplinary pain management treatments that employ behavioral approaches have been successful in helping patients with chronic pain reduce symptoms and regain functioning. However, most patients lack access to such treatments. We are conducting a pragmatic clinical trial to test the hypothesis that patients who receive an interdisciplinary biopsychosocial intervention, the Pain Program for Active Coping and Training (PPACT), at their primary care clinic will have a greater reduction in pain impact in the year following than patients receiving usual care.

Methods/design

This is an effectiveness-implementation hybrid pragmatic clinical trial in which w

SUBMITTER: DeBar L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5931339 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature