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A Quality Improvement Project to Investigate Individual Provider Variation in Opioid Prescribing From the Emergency Department

NCT02665429 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 109

Last updated 2017-06-27

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This is a study of emergency physicians' prescribing patterns related to opioid (narcotic) medications. We are trying to determine whether giving providers access to their own prescribing data influences their prescribing patterns.

Conditions

  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Drug Prescribing
  • Over Prescribing
  • Prescribing Patterns, Physician
  • Practice Management, Medical
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Individual prescribing data profile and self-assessment

Prior to receiving his or her individual data profile, each provider in the intervention group will be asked to identify his or her self-assessment of his or her own opioid prescribing practices. Immediately after providing self-perception data, providers will be provided with their true profile data with a visual display of where they fall within the distribution of their peers. All peer data are de-identified.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • UMass Memorial Health

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Massachusetts, Worcester

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sean Michael, MD · UMass Memorial Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-02-01
Primary Completion
2017-03-01
Completion
2017-03-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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