The Pain Registry SIG Meets the Acute Pain SIG

This webinar was produced through a collaboration of IASP's Pain Registries Special Interest Group and Acute Pain Special Interest Group.
                                                                      
The mission of IASP's Acute Pain Special Interest Group is to advance and promote the understanding of mechanisms, assessment, prevention, and management of acute pain. Pain registries serve as an important tool in achieving this mission, as they lead to a better understanding of treatment benefits in certain populations or different pain entities, and can help identify the effectiveness of specific treatment procedures or polypharmacy remedies. As such, continued collaboration between groups specializing in these areas can help lead to better patient-reported outcomes.

This webinar - held on 16 November 2023 - was a collaboration between IASP's Pain Registries and Acute Pain Special Interest Group’s, and showcased recent developments. Four speakers presented best practices in pain registries on acute pain and beyond. The development and further expansion of pain registries was described. Also, we discussed how data is collected and what research questions can be answered with the help of the data in the registry. Furthermore, speakers discussed the limits of the pain registry data and elaborated on benefits for patient care.

The presentations included both early-career and established researchers from the USA, UK, and Australia. They covered topics such as outcomes from the electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration (ePPOC) and Translational Biorepository, establishing a registry of all pain registries, and a multi-center assessment of pain outcomes from day case surgery.

Participants included:

• David Holloway, PhD, University of Wollongong NSW, Australia; A Decade of Collecting Chronic Pain Outcomes in Australia
• Eleanor Whittaker, MD, Institute of Naval Medicine, Gosport, UK;On Setting Up a Registry of Pain Registries
• Shad B. Smith, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, USA;Mechanistic Classification of Chronic Pain Patients Using Biorepository Data Collection in a Clinical Setting
  
• Adam Brayne, MD, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, UK; The POPPY Study: Patient Reported Outcomes, Postoperative Pain, and Pain Relief in Day Case Surgery
• Rianne van Boekel, PhD, RN, Radboud University Medical Center,Netherlands (Chair)
• Cathy Price, MD, Solent NHS Trust, UK (Chair)