BMJ Open • Vol 14 • No 6
PRECISE trial (Pain RElief Combination Intervention StratEgies): protocol for the clinical trial of a pregabalin–melatonin combination for fibromyalgia
June 2024 • Ian Gilron, Chris DeBow, Hala Elkerdawy, James S. Khan, Tim V. Salomons, D. W. Scott, Dongsheng Tu, Ronald R. Holden, Roumen Milev, D. Norman Buckley…
Introduction Fibromyalgia is associated with chronic widespread pain and disturbed sleep. Multidisciplinary, multimodal management often includes pharmacotherapy; however, current drugs used to treat fibromyalgia provide meaningful benefit to only 30–60% of treated individuals. Combining two or more different drugs is common in clinical practice with the expectation of better efficacy, tolerability or both; however, further research is needed to identify which combinations actually provide added benefit. Thus, we …