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Virtual Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Title: Keeping Complex Chronic Pain Patients Alive During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Aim: The aim of this study is to adapt the gold standard treatments used that the Transitional Pain Service and the GoodHope Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Clinic at the Toronto General Hospital into a virtual intervention that will meet the needs of complex chronic pain patients during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reducing Opioid Use for Patients with Chronic Pain after Surgery
Title: Transitional Pain and Opioid Safety Program: Improving Pain and Opioid Practices for Complex Chronic Pain Patients Following Surgery (RECOUP)
Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the Transitional Pain Service at managing pain and opioid use in patients one year after surgery using a multicenter randomized controlled trial involving 5 hospital sites across Ontario.
Clinically Relevant Biomarkers of Chronic Post-Surgical Pain
Title: Phenomics and Genomics of Clinically Relevant Chronic Post-Surgical Pain: A Prospective Study
Aim: This prospective study aims to identify genetic and other biomarkers, including psychophysical, psychosocial, environmental, and protective factors that jointly control the transition of acute to chronic pain after a cardiac and thoracic surgery.
Real World Evidence in Patient-Reported Outcomes for Medical Cannabis
Title: Real World Evidence in Patient-Reported Outcomes for Medical Cannabis: A Prospective Observational Study (MC-RWE)
Aim: This prospective observational study aims to describe the effectiveness of medical cannabis on pain, sleep, and anxiety/depression using pre-defined, validated self assessment scales in a cohort of patients taking medical cannabis.
For more info see: mcrwe.ca
Cannabis Use and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Osteoarthritis
Title: A Prospective Observational Study of the Relationship Between Cannabis Use, Biomarkers, Tissue Cannabinoid Levels and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Osteoarthritis
Aim: The aim of this prospective study is to evaluate the association between cannabis use, osteoarthritis biomarkers, tissue cannabinoid levels, and clinical outcomes in a population of patients with knee osteoarthritis.
Current Projects
Virtual Care Project
Completed Projects
Completed Projects
Clinical Hypnosis Program for Postsurgical Pain and Opioid Weaning
Title: A Randomized-Controlled Trial of a Novel Perioperative Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Clinical Hypnosis Program for Postsurgical Pain and Opioid Weaning.
Aim: This study tested the efficacy of a clinical hypnosis intervention in the peri-operative period, with the goal of reducing opioid use after surgery.
Evaluating and Optimizing the World-First Transitional Pain Service
Title: Transitional pain service: Reducing heath care costs and improving opioid safety for complex chronic pain patients following hospital discharge.
Aim: This study evaluated our world-first Transitional Pain Service (TPS) at the Toronto General Hospital dedicated to preventing chronic pain, pain disability, and persistent opioid use following surgery and to reducing associated health care costs.
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Our Research Funding Sources
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