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Record W1988742440 · doi:10.1097/aap.0b013e318217a635

Clinical Trial Methodology of Pain Treatment Studies

2011· review· en· W1988742440 on OpenAlexafffund
Ian Gilron, Mark P. Jensen

Bibliographic record

VenueRegional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine · 2011
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsMedicinePsychological interventionReliability (semiconductor)Clinical trialPhysical therapyOutcome (game theory)Chronic painAnalgesicIntensive care medicinePhysical medicine and rehabilitationPsychiatry

Abstract

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The past century has seen immense progress in the advancement of methodology to evaluate efficacy of treatment interventions for acute and chronic pain. Continuing challenges revolve around how to best select and measure primary efficacy outcomes for a given analgesic trial. Recognizing the complex, multidimensional, sensory and emotional nature of pain and applying psychometric techniques have facilitated the development of several valid and reliable self-report measures that evaluate pain intensity, pain relief, and other important outcome domains relevant to pain treatment. In the setting of emerging new pain treatment strategies, careful consideration must be given to match current or novel outcome measures to the specific goals of a proposed trial. Future research is needed to directly compare current methods with newer measurement approaches for the critical goal of maximizing validity, reliability, and utility of different outcome measures in clinical trials of pain treatment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.367
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.564
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.633
Threshold uncertainty score0.781

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.3670.564
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0110.006
Bibliometrics0.0090.008
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0070.004
Open science0.0060.004
Research integrity0.0060.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.490
GPT teacher head0.517
Teacher spread0.027 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
DomainMethods
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations54
Published2011
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