Addressing Origins of the Opioid Epidemic by Improving Prescribing for Opioid-Naive Patients
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Risk of long-term opioid dependence increases with initial opioid dose/duration, but despite recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-endorsed minimum doses for initial opioid prescription, primary care providers are likely to overprescribe. In this quality improvement project, primary care departments at Weill Cornell and the Institute for Family Health (federally qualified health center in New York City) will implement an unobtrusive "nudge" in their electronic prescribing software to promote the CDC-endorsed low doses for all opioids. In the evaluation, we will employ a quasi-experimental design with rigorous interrupted time series analysis methods to assess the effect of the "nudge" on prescribing rates. The analysis will be performed at the provider level, with deidentified physician data and a limited data set (fully deidentified except for date of prescription) of patient-level data.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03377855
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 948 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 89 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 31, 2018
- Primary completion
- Dec 30, 2019
- Completion
- Dec 30, 2019
- Last update posted
- Feb 23, 2020
2018 – 2019
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Institute for Family Health | New York | New York | 10035 | — |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York | New York | 10065 | — |
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