Defining Sickle Cell Disease Acute Painful Episodes: The Pisces Project

Conclusions: A comparison of various definitions of acute painful episodes using the PiSCES dataset yields slightly different pain outcome results. However, these differences are intuitive. For example, chronic pain patients still have more intense and more frequent acute painful episodes regardless of the definition used. The finding of more frequent acute pain in SCD adults with chronic pain has important implications for treatment and the design of SCD clinical trials.Table.DisclosuresField: Ironwood: Consultancy, Research Funding; Prolong: Research Funding; Incyte: Research Funding. Dampier: Pfizer: Research Funding.

Source: Blood - November 21, 2018 Category: Hematology Authors: McClish, D. k., Smith, W. R., Field, J. J., Ballas, S. K., Campbell, C. M., Crosby, L. E., Dampier, C., Darbari, D. S., Zempsky, W. Tags: 901. Health Services Research-Non-Malignant Conditions: Poster II Source Type: research