February 29, 2016: Upcoming ACTTION Presentations at the American Pain Society


ACTTION Assistant Directors, Jennifer Gewandter, PhD, and Shannon Smith, PhD, will present posters at the annual meeting of the American Pain Society, to be held in Austin, Texas from May 11-14, 2016, that report on ACTTION Working Group projects. Dr. Gewandter will describe the results of a review of cross-over clinical trials of neuropathic and musculoskeletal pain; she will be at the author-attended poster session on Thursday, May 12 from 9:30-11am. Dr. Smith will present the results of a study of patient preferences for pain clinical trial characteristics; she will be at the author-attended poster session on Thursday, May 12 from 3:45-5:15pm. The complete references for these two presentations are:

Gewandter JS, McKeown A, McDermott MP, Hoang K, Iwan K, Kralovic S, Rothstein D, Gilron I, Katz NP, Senn S, Smith SM, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. Reporting of cross-over clinical trials of analgesic treatments for neuropathic and musculoskeletal pain: ACTTION systematic review and recommendations.

Smith SM, Gewandter JS, Kitt R, Markman JD, Vaughan JA, Cowan P, Sadosky A, Tive L, Turk DC, Dworkin RH. Preferences for pain clinical trial characteristics: an ACTTION adaptive choice-based conjoint survey study.