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Application of Economics & Social Psychology to Improve Opioid Prescribing Safety Trial 1: EHR Nudges

NCT04477304 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 555

Last updated 2025-08-07

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Summary

The opioid epidemic has had a tremendous negative impact on the health of persons in the U.S. The objective of the trial 1 of Application of Economics \& Social psychology to improve Opioid Prescribing Safety (AESOPS-T1), is to discourage unnecessary opioid prescribing through the application of "behavioral insights"-empirically-tested social and psychological interventions that affect choice.

Conditions

  • Opioid Abuse, Unspecified

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Opioid Naive, OR

Visits where the order is for an included opioid and there is no prior opioid prescription with a start date of greater than 1 day and less than 91 days and clinician is on the clinic list as a treating member of the clinic

BEHAVIORAL

At-risk for long-term use, OR

Visit where the order is for an included opioid, there is a prior opioid prescription with a start date greater than 1 day and less than 91 days, and there is no prior opioid prescription with a start date greater than 90 days and clinician is on the clinic list as a treating member of the clinic

BEHAVIORAL

Long-term opioid recipient

Total opioid doses are at least 50 MME per day, there are two or more prior opioid prescriptions with two different start dates both greater than 1 day and less than 91 days, and there is a prior opioid prescription with a start date greater than 90 days and less than 181 days and clinician is on the clinic list as a treating member of the clinic

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Northwestern University

    collaborator OTHER

  • AltaMed Health Services Corporation

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Southern California

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jason N Doctor, PhD · University of Southern California

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
2020-12-01
Primary Completion
2023-08-06
Completion
2023-08-06

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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