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Prescribing Opioid Pain Relievers in the Emergency Department: Understanding and Optimizing the Encounter

NCT02299024 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 278

Last updated 2019-08-20

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The investigators overall study objective is to improve patients knowledge and safe use of opioid pain relievers upon discharge from the Emergency Department.

Conditions

  • Opioid Use, Unspecified

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Additional Opioid Information

Patients receiving this intervention are given additional information about the opioid pain medication that they are receiving in the form of a one page handout. The hand out was written in a health-literacy appropriate manner. A research assistant read the handout to them out loud, and they were given a copy to take home with them.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Danielle McCarthy, MD MS · Northwestern University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-10-31
Primary Completion
2013-05-31
Completion
2013-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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