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Default Dosing Settings for Opioid Prescriptions to Adolescents and Young Adults After Tonsillectomy

NCT04066829 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 198

Last updated 2022-11-01

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Summary

This study will evaluate whether lowering the default number of doses for opioid prescriptions written in an electronic health record system can decrease opioid prescribing without causing unintended consequences such as worsened pain control.

Conditions

  • Tonsillectomy

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Default setting intervention

The new default settings will be implemented only for patients in the experimental arm.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Kao-Ping Chua · University of Michigan

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-10-01
Primary Completion
2021-07-31
Completion
2021-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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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.

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