Publications

The trial publications, including results, are listed below:

The I-WOTCH clinical results are reported in this journal paper:

Sandhu HK, Booth K, Furlan AD, et al. Reducing Opioid Use for Chronic Pain With a Group-Based Intervention: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2023;329(20):1745–1756. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.6454

Process Evaluation Results:

Nichols VP, Abraham C, Eldabe S On behalf of the I-WOTCH team, et al. ‘It was a joint plan we worked out together’. How the I-WOTCH programme enabled people with chronic non-malignant pain to taper their opioids: a process evaluation BMJ Open 2023;13:e074603. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-074603

Sandhu HK, Shaw J, Carnes D On behalf of the I-WOTCH Team, et. al.

Development and testing of an opioid tapering self-management intervention for chronic pain: I-WOTCH

BMJ Open 2022;12:e053725.

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053725

Manchira Krishnan S, Gc VS, Sandhu HK, I-WOTCH Team, et. al.

Protocol for an economic analysis of the randomised controlled trial of Improving the Well-being of people with Opioid Treated CHronic pain: I-WOTCH Study

BMJ Open 2020;10:e037243.

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037243

Nichols VP, Abraham C, Eldabe S on behalf of the I-WOTCH Team, et. al.

Process evaluation protocol for the I-WOTCH study: an opioid tapering support programme for people with chronic non-malignant pain

BMJ Open 2019;9:e028998

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-028998

Sandhu HK, Abraham C, Alleyne S, Balasubramanian S, Betteley L, Booth K, Carnes D, Furlan AD, Haywood K, Iglesias Urrutia CP, Lall R, Manca A, Mistry D, Nichols VP, Noyes J, Rahman A, Seers K, Shaw J, Tang NKY, Taylor S, Tysall C, Underwood M, Withers EJ, Eldabe S.

Testing a support programme for opioid reduction for people with chronic non-malignant pain: the I-WOTCH randomised controlled trial protocol.

BMJ Open. 2019 Aug 8;9(8):e028937. PMID: 31399456; PMCID: PMC6701652.

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-028937.

Related Publications:

Sandhu H, Underwood M, Furlan AD, Noyes J, Eldabe S. What interventions are effective to taper opioids in patients with chronic pain? BMJ. 2018 Sep 27;362:k2990. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2990. PMID: 30262590.

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