We are conducting a study of a new FREE information service for evidence-based pain management.

Pain+ will make keeping up to date and applying the latest research in clinical practice easier for clinicians. To save you time, these articles will be pre-assessed for quality by research staff, and for clinical relevance and interest by practicing clinicians. A wide range of publications from multiple disciplines are surveyed.

As a “one-stop” access to current best evidence from research on pain management, Pain+ offers:

• A searchable database of the best evidence from the health care literature

• An email alerting system

• Links to selected evidence-based resources

Pain+ was developed as part of a research study comparing two different types of access to pain research evidence.  Study participants will be randomly assigned to one of 2 ways of sharing research evidence: 1) sending e-mail alerts and reviews about the best new pain research; or 2) access to web-based resources.  All participants get to try both services for 9 months each for FREE.

Eligibility criteria:

(1) physicians, nurses, occupational/physical therapists, psychologists who are currently seeing patients at least 1 day per week;

(2) are fluent in English,

(3) have access to a computer at home or at work which has unrestricted access to the World Wide Web, and

(4) have an active email account.

For more information: http://plus.mcmaster.ca/PainPlus/

Contact person: Margaret Lomotan at lomotam@mcmaster.ca or 905-525-9140 ext. 27328.