Implementation and Effectiveness of the Power Over Pain Portal for Patients Awaiting a Tertiary Care Consultation for Chronic Pain: Protocol for a Pilot, Prospective, Cohort, Mixed Methods Study

Amin Zahrai   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc ;   Etienne J Bisson   ^{1, 3, 4 *} , PhD ;   Yaadwinder Shergill   ¹ , PhD ;   Danielle Rice   ¹ , PhD ;   Natalie Zur Nedden   ¹ , PhD ;   Lynn Cooper   ¹ , BES ;   Daniel James   ^{5, 6, 7} , MD ;   Josh A Rash   ⁸ , PhD ;   Rachael Bosma   ^{9, 10} , PhD ;   Tim Ramsay   ¹ , PhD ;   Patricia Poulin   ^{1, 5, 7} , PhD

¹ Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

² School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

³ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada

⁴ Chronic Pain Clinic, Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada

⁵ The Ottawa Hospital Pain Clinic, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁸ Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St-John's, NL, Canada

⁹ Centre for the Study of Pain, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

¹⁰ Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

*these authors contributed equally