Clinical trialNCT00230932CompletedObservational

Help Veterans Experience Less Pain Study (HELP-Vets)

SponsorUS Department of Veterans AffairsEnrollment654Heart Failure, CongestivePainSigns and Symptoms

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Summary

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Our purpose is to evaluate the reliability and validity of the '5th vital sign' in everyday practice settings and to compare the relationship of pain to other symptoms and pain treatment in patients with cancer, CHF, and patients with complex general medical illness and poor self-reported health.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a FindMyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Karl A. Lorenz, MD MSHS
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, CA
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Va Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles, Ca
West Los Angeles, California, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Oct 2005
Primary completion: 30 Jun 2007
Completion: 30 Sept 2008
Last update posted: 7 Apr 2015
Registered enrollment: 654
Registry id: NCT00230932

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.