Pain Management Registry Version 3

• Research type

  Research Database

• IRAS ID

  339716

• Contact name

  Katie Herron

• Contact email

  katie.herron@nhs.net

• Research summary

  Pain Management Registry Version 3

• REC name

  North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  24/NW/0068

• Date of REC Opinion

  21 Mar 2024

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The Pain Management Registry (PMR) is an innovative prospective and retrospective open-ended study conducted by a network of clinicians and researchers involved with pain management at The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust. Participants will be patients with a chronic pain diagnosis being assessed for a pain management programme (PMP). The study aims to (i) improve the understanding of chronic pain (ii) improve management and treatment options for chronic pain (iii) evaluate the
  effectiveness of current management and treatment of chronic pain (iv) facilitate the recruitment of suitable candidates for future research studies. Demographic and psychosocial data collected at initial assessment and a number of specified follow-up time points (according to PMP schedules) will be entered onto and held on a formally registered database (the PMR). The registry will include cross-matching to link those participants who have received multiple numbers of pain management interventions within the hospital

• Research programme

  Following a literature search there was no evidence of a formal chronic pain registry. Therefore, the Pain Management Registry is much needed to support this patient group and to facilitate future studies by researchers. Although results will not be of direct clinical significance to chronic pain patients involved in the registry, we hope that obtaining this information will assist us in determining more effective chronic pain treatment strategies in the future. Furthermore, involvement in other research studies resulting from registry participation may also help establish effective treatment options. There is still more to understand about chronic pain and effective treatments. Therefore, this study is essential for continuing research into options working to improve people’s quality of life living with a chronic pain condition. The start-up and development of the registry and associated software, research protocol and methodology has been sponsored by the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust.

• Research database title

  Pain Management Registry Version 3

• Establishment organisation

  The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

• Establishment organisation address

  Lower Lane

  Fazakerley

  Liverpool

  L9 7LJ