RReADS Database
The Repository of Registered Analgesic Device Studies (RReADS) database provides a snapshot of registered analgesic device clinical trials and a scorecard for public availability of results. A description of the RReADS database is provided by Dufka et al. (2015). Links to websites listed in the database may not still be active, and some studies may have had full publication of results since the most recent updating of the database. Links to the most recent version of the database follow:
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) / transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
Dufka FL, Munch T, Dworkin RH, Rowbotham MC. Results availability for analgesic device, complex regional pain syndrome, and post-stroke pain trials: comparing the RReADS, RReACT and RReMiT databases. Pain, 2015;156:72-80.
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ACTTION Guide to Clinical Trials of Pain Treatments
The ACTTION Guide to Clinical Trials of Pain Treatments consists of two supplements published in the journal Pain Reports that include a series of articles describing research designs and methods, study conduct, outcome measures, data analyses and interpretation, and reporting recommendations for clinical trials of acute and chronic pain treatments.
Part I includes 9 articles that can be found here, and Part II includes 6 articles that can be found here.