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The Caulfield Pain Management and Research Centre has a very strong and active program in applied clinical research.
Major areas of current activity include two NHMRC trials of antidepressant therapy for the management of chronic low back pain, and the utility of simple analgesics to reduce pain-related agitation and aggression in persons with dementia living in residential aged care facilities, and an ARC funded linkage project, partnering with the Transport Accident Commission, aimed at investigating the role of compensation status on chronic pain and functional outcomes after traumatic injury with a focus on psychological factors (attention, beliefs and attitudes, emotional responses, PTSD). A major stream of research involves the development of better outcome measures for the assessment of chronic pain conditions and was one of the first Victorian sites to commence participating in the electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration in 2014.