A standard database format for clinical trials of pain treatments: an ACTTION-CDISC initiative

Robert H Dworkin1, Robert Allen, Stephen Kopko

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA Afferent Pharmaceuticals, San Mateo, CA, USA Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, Austin, TX, USA KAI Research, Inc., Rockville, MD, USA Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA Food and Drug Administration, Silver Springs, MD, USA Desjardins Associates, Maplewood, NJ, USA Johnson & Johnson, Titusville, NJ, USA Merck & Co., Whitehouse Station, NJ, USA Pfizer Inc., Groton, CT, USA AstraZeneca, Wilmington, DE, USA Cephalon, Frazer, PA, USA Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc., Parsippany, NJ, USA Teva Pharmaceuticals, Frazer, PA, USA.

Pain
|December 11, 2012
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