Assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on pragmatic clinical trial participants.

ABSTRACT: Characterizing the impacts of disruption attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical research is important, especially in pain research where psychological, social, and economic stressors attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic may greatly impact treatment effects. The National Institutes of Health - Department of Defense - Department of Veterans Affairs Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC) is a collective effort supporting 11 pragmatic clinical trials studying nonpharmacological approaches and innovative integrated care models for pain management in veteran and military health systems. The PMC rapidly developed a brief pandemic impacts measure for use across its pragmatic trials studying pain while remaining broadly applicable to other areas of clinical research. Through open discussio

SUBMITTER: Coleman BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8585559 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature