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Research design considerations for confirmatory chronic pain clinical trials: IMMPACT recommendations

  • Robert H. Dworkin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 585 275 3524; fax: +1 585 473 5007.
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  • Dennis C. Turk

      Affiliations

    • University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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  • Sarah Peirce-Sandner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, 14642, USA
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  • Ralf Baron

      Affiliations

    • University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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  • Nicholas Bellamy

      Affiliations

    • University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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  • Laurie B. Burke

      Affiliations

    • United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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  • Amy Chappell

      Affiliations

    • Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA
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  • Kevin Chartier

      Affiliations

    • United BioSource Corporation, Newtown, PA, USA
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  • Charles S. Cleeland

      Affiliations

    • M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
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  • Ann Costello

      Affiliations

    • United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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  • Penney Cowan

      Affiliations

    • American Chronic Pain Association, Rocklin, CA, USA
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  • Rozalina Dimitrova

      Affiliations

    • Allergan, Inc, Irvine, CA, USA
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  • Susan Ellenberg

      Affiliations

    • New York University, New York, NY, USA
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  • John T. Farrar

      Affiliations

    • New York University, New York, NY, USA
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  • Jacqueline A. French

      Affiliations

    • New York University, New York, NY, USA
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  • Ian Gilron

      Affiliations

    • Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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  • Sharon Hertz

      Affiliations

    • United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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  • Alejandro R. Jadad

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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  • Gary W. Jay

      Affiliations

    • Schwarz Biosciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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  • Jarkko Kalliomäki

      Affiliations

    • AstraZeneca, Södertälje, Sweden
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  • Nathaniel P. Katz

      Affiliations

    • Analgesic Research, Needham, MA, USA
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  • Robert D. Kerns

      Affiliations

    • Department of Veterans Affairs, West Haven, CT, USA
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  • Donald C. Manning

      Affiliations

    • Celgene Corporation, Warren, NJ, USA
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  • Michael P. McDermott

      Affiliations

    • University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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  • Patrick J. McGrath

      Affiliations

    • IWK Health Centre and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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  • Arvind Narayana

      Affiliations

    • Cephalon, Inc., Frazer, PA, USA
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  • Linda Porter

      Affiliations

    • National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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  • Steve Quessy

      Affiliations

    • qd consulting, LLC, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
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  • Bob A. Rappaport

      Affiliations

    • United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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  • Christine Rauschkolb

      Affiliations

    • Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development LLC, Raritan, NJ, USA
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  • Bryce B. Reeve

      Affiliations

    • National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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  • Thomas Rhodes

      Affiliations

    • Merck & Company, Blue Bell, PA, USA
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  • Cristina Sampaio

      Affiliations

    • Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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  • David M. Simpson

      Affiliations

    • Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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  • Joseph W. Stauffer

      Affiliations

    • Alpharma, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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  • Gerold Stucki

      Affiliations

    • University of Lucerne and Swiss Paraplegic Research, Lucerne, Switzerland
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  • Jeffrey Tobias

      Affiliations

    • NeurogesX, Inc., San Carlos, CA, USA
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  • Richard E. White

      Affiliations

    • Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., Chadds Ford, PA, USA
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  • James Witter

      Affiliations

    • National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Received 20 October 2009; received in revised form 5 February 2010; accepted 10 February 2010. published online 08 March 2010.

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PII: S0304-3959(10)00093-X

doi:10.1016/j.pain.2010.02.018

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