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EMR Defaults to Nudge Opioid Prescribing

NCT04155229 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 104

Last updated 2019-11-07

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Summary

The investigators conducted a prospective, block-randomized study to determine whether and to what extent changes in the default settings in the electronic medical record (EMR) affect opioid prescriptions for patients discharged from emergency departments (EDs).

Conditions

  • Pain, Acute
  • Opioid Use, Unspecified

Interventions

OTHER

Default settings for opioid prescriptions (acetaminophen/hydrocodone, oxycodone, acetaminophen/oxycodone)

For each of the arms, the investigators modified the default setting for the dispense quantity of study opioids on the electronic medical record settings for discharge prescriptions. Study drugs include acetaminophen 325mg + hydrocodone 5mg, acetaminophen 325mg + hydrocodone 7.5mg, acetaminophen 325mg + hydrocodone 10mg, oxycodone 5mg, acetaminophen 325mg + oxycodone 5mg, acetaminophen 325mg + oxycodone 10mg.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Juan Carlos Montoy, MD, PhD · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-10-03
Primary Completion
2017-09-03
Completion
2017-09-03

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