In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, the principal investigator of the PPACT study, an NIH Collaboratory Trial, will announce the study’s primary results.
Principal investigator Dr. Lynn DeBar of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, will present “Primary Care-Based Behavioral Treatment for Long Term Opioid Users With Chronic Pain: Primary Results and Lessons Learned From the PPACT Pragmatic Trial.” The Grand Rounds session will be held on Friday, December 3, at 1:00 pm eastern.
PPACT, or the Collaborative Care for Chronic Pain in Primary Care study, was a pragmatic, cluster randomized trial that enrolled 850 patients who were receiving long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain. Patients in the intervention group participated in weekly group sessions that taught a variety of pain self-management techniques. The strategy was compared with usual care.
PPACT was supported within the NIH Collaboratory by the NIH Common Fund and by cooperative agreements from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.