5
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: found
      • Article: not found

      Neglected topics in chronic pain treatment outcome studies: determination of success.

      Brain
      Chronic Disease, Humans, Pain Management, Research Design, Treatment Outcome

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisherPubMed
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Abstract

          Although literature on chronic pain treatment outcome has made substantial strides in improving the quality of the studies reported, there remain a number of factors that lead to qualification of the generally positive results. In the two previous papers in this series a set of migrating factors was discussed, namely, representativeness of the samples treated in these outcome studies, relapse, and non-compliance with therapeutic recommendations. Additional limitations include the lack of agreement on the criteria on which to base evaluation of the success of treatment outcome and the percentage of treated patients included in follow-up data. In this paper, the most common methods for determining success are described (group effects based on standard and quasi-standard outcome measures). The limitations of this approach are discussed and alternative strategies are presented that focus not only on traditional criteria based on group means but on additional criteria including: (a) importance of change (i.e., clinical vs. statistical significance), (b) proportion of patients who improve, (c) cost, (d) efficiency in treatment delivery, (e) and consumer acceptance and satisfaction.

          Related collections

          Author and article information

          Journal
          8316386
          10.1016/0304-3959(93)90049-U

          Chemistry
          Chronic Disease,Humans,Pain Management,Research Design,Treatment Outcome
          Chemistry
          Chronic Disease, Humans, Pain Management, Research Design, Treatment Outcome

          Comments

          Comment on this article