Patient Centered Post-Op Pain Management Software Tool Interventional Study Verses Standard of Care

NCT06469177 · Status: ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1000

Last updated 2025-02-12

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Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if the Pain Coach App will result in less opioids being prescribed to and used by patients undergoing Shoulder/Hip/Knee Arthroplasty surgery while maintaining the same or better pain control versus standard of care. The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. Will elective shoulder, hip and knee arthroplasty patients using PainCoach App be prescribed and/or use less opioids, measured by total morphine milliequivalents (MME) after surgery when compared to those treated as standard of care while maintaining similar pain control?
2. Will arthroplasty surgeons using PainCoach App write more patient-specific prescriptions resulting in a reduction in opioids prescribed after surgery with no increase in further opioids prescribed in the months following surgery?
3. Will the use of Pain Coach App lead to equal or reduced healthcare system utilization after surgery?
4. Will patients and surgeons using PainCoach App find it helpful enough to use it again and recommend to colleagues, family and friends?

Researchers will compare participants assigned to use Pain Coach App vs participants assigned to standard of care arm to see if there are differences in opioid prescriptions and self reported use.

Participants will either use the Pain Coach App or follow standard of care instructions and be followed forward for the opioid prescriptions dispensed in community and self-reported opioids use at study end.

Conditions

  • Post-operative Pain, Acute
  • Opioid Use, Unspecified
  • Arthroplasty Complications
  • Knee Osteoarthritis
  • Shoulder Arthritis
  • Hip Arthritis

Interventions

DEVICE

Pain Coach App

Pain Coach App is a mobile application that offers patients undergoing shoulder, hip and knee arthroplasty surgery preoperative educational tools and questionnaires to provide patient specific details to their surgeons for prescribing purposes as well as post operative pain assessment and medication reminders/tracking, problem troubleshooting and a resource library for further pain management tools and education.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Nova Scotia Health Authority

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-01-07
Primary Completion
2025-09-30
Completion
2025-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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