October 17, 2014: Thirteen ACTTION Articles Published or Accepted Since January 1, 2014


The following ACTTION articles have recently been published or accepted for publication (see May 22, 2014 news item below for this year’s first set). These articles cover a range of topics, and abstracts are available at the link provided at the end of each reference.

Gewandter JS, McDermott MP, McKeown A, Smith SM, Williams MR, Hunsinger M, Farrar JT, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. Reporting of missing data and methods used to accommodate them in recent analgesic clinical trials: ACTTION systematic review and recommendations. Pain, 2014;155:1871-1877. (abstract here)

Dufka FL, Dworkin RH, Rowbotham MC. How transparent are migraine clinical trials? RReMiT Repository of Registered Migraine Trials. Neurology, in press. (abstract here)

Dufka FL, Munch T, Dworkin RH, Rowbotham MC. Results availability for analgesic device, CRPS, and post-stroke pain trials: comparing the RReADS, RReACT and RReMiT databases. Pain, in press. (abstract here)

Dworkin RH, Turk DC, Peirce-Sandner S, He H, McDermott MP, Hochberg MC, Jordan JM, Katz NP, Lin AH, Neogi T, Rappaport BA, Simon LS, Strand V. Meta-analysis of assay sensitivity and study features in clinical trials of pharmacologic treatments for osteoarthritis pain. Arthritis & Rheumatology, in press. (abstract here)

Gewandter JS, McDermott MP, McKeown A, Smith SM, Pawlowski JR, Poli JP, Rothstein D, Williams MR, Bujanover S, Farrar JT, Gilron I, Katz NP, Rowbotham MC, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. Reporting of intention-to-treat analyses in recent analgesic clinical trials: ACTTION systematic review and recommendations. Pain, in press. (abstract here)

Gewandter JS, McKeown A, McDermott MP, Dworkin JD, Smith SM, Gross RA, Hunsinger M, Lin AH, Rappaport BA, Rice ASC, Rowbotham MC, Williams MR, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. Data interpretation in analgesic clinical trials with statistically non-significant primary analyses: An ACTTION systematic review. Journal of Pain, in press. (abstract here)

Hunsinger M, Smith SM, Rothstein D, McKeown A, Parkhurst M, Hertz S, Katz NP, Lin AH, McDermott MP, Rappaport BA, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. Adverse event reporting in non-pharmacologic, non-interventional pain clinical trials: ACTTION systematic review. Pain, in press. (abstract here)