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Patient Education to Improve Pain Management in Older Adults With Acute Musculoskeletal Pain: A Pilot Randomized Trial

NCT02438384 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2020-02-26

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Summary

This is a three arm pilot randomized trial. Patients will be assigned to:

1. Usual care
2. Video education in the Emergency Department (ED)
3. Video education in the ED plus phone follow-up at three days with geriatric pain management specialist for all patients with pain \>=4/10

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Video

This is a 10 minute interactive video which provided information to the viewer regarding the safe and effective use of analgesics for acute musculoskeletal pain at home. The focus is on acetaminophen, NSAIDs, and opioids.

BEHAVIORAL

Phone follow-up

The call will be made by the study coordinator, who is a medical student. Any patients reporting a pain score in the past 24 hours of 4 or more will be re-contacted by an emergency physician with special training in geriatric pain management. This individual will provide recommendations to the patient regarding treatment options.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • American Federation for Aging Research

    collaborator OTHER

  • The John A. Hartford Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tim Platts-Mills, MD, MSc · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-30
Primary Completion
2017-06-17
Completion
2017-06-17

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT02438384 on ClinicalTrials.gov