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Opioid-use DisorderNCT04198428

Clinical Decision Support for Opioid Use Disorders in Medical Settings (COMPUTE 2.0)

A study testing Opioid Wizard in people with Opioid-use Disorder, run by HealthPartners Institute at 3 sites in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

Official record
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Trial summary

Through CTN-0076-Ot (Clinical Decision Support for Opioid Use Disorders in Medical Settings: Pilot Usability Testing in an EMR (COMPUTE)), our team has iteratively developed and piloted a web-based and electronic health record (EHR)-integrated Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system to offer… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 75 years
Conditions the study is for
Opioid-use Disorder
What is being tested?
Opioid Wizard
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
10,891 participants
Where
3 sitesUnited States
Study dates
12 Nov 2019to 31 Dec 2023
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 75 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • be aged 18-75 years, inclusive, at the time of an index visit;
  • have been diagnosed with OUD, currently prescribed MOUD, or identified by study algorithms as being at high risk of OUD.
  • Be a patient at a study randomized clinic

Who cannot join

  • those receiving active parenteral chemotherapy within the last year,
  • those with stage 4 or equivalent cancer diagnosis
  • those enrolled in hospice care or palliative care programs.

Trial locations and contacts

3 sites in 1 country.

United States3 sites
  • HealthPartners

    Bloomington, Minnesota, 55425

  • Geisinger

    Danville, Pennsylvania, 17822-4400

  • Essentia Health

    Duluth, Minnesota, 55805

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About this study

Official title: Clinic-Randomized Trial of Clinical Decision Support for Opioid Use Disorders in Medical Settings (COMPUTE 2.0)

Through CTN-0076-Ot (Clinical Decision Support for Opioid Use Disorders in Medical Settings: Pilot Usability Testing in an EMR (COMPUTE)), our team has iteratively developed and piloted a web-based and electronic health record (EHR)-integrated Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) Clinical Decision Support (CDS) system to offer expert guidance to primary care providers (PCPs) on the diagnosis and management of OUD. The OUD-CDS has been implemented within the EPIC EHR of one large care system and was piloted with 55 providers to ensure content validity and provider satisfaction. The team will now implement this OUD-CDS in a large multi-site clinic-randomized controlled trial to evaluate its impact on practice process measures and patient outcomes. The investigators also aim to prepare for scalability (i.e., integration into usual primary care practice after the study is complete) and dissemination by evaluating facilitators and barriers to implementation, determining the costs of implementation and maintenance, and assessing the short-term cost impacts of the OUD-CDS.

The study will include three large diverse care systems and randomize a minimum of 30 clinics to receive the OUD-CDS intervention or usual care (UC). In intervention clinics, the OUD-CDS will identify patients who are at high risk for OUD or diagnosed with OUD; use data stored in the EHR for each eligible patient to assemble treatment recommendations tailored to each patient's current needs; display these recommendations to PCPs via the OUD-CDS user interface; and store analytic data from all targeted visits. In UC clinics, the OUD-CDS will run invisibly in the background to identify high-risk or OUD patients, assemble treatment recommendations tailored to each eligible patient's needs, and store analytic data from all targeted visits.

Read the detailed description

The proposed study will include 3 large diverse healthcare systems and randomize a minimum of 30 clinics equally within each system to receive the OUD-CDS intervention or UC. In intervention and UC clinics, the OUD-CDS will identify study-eligible patients, those who are at high risk for OUD or diagnosed with OUD; and will use data stored in the EHR to assemble treatment recommendations tailored to the needs of each study-eligible patient. In intervention clinics, these treatment recommendations will be displayed via the OUD-CDS user interface. Finally, data from all targeted visits in all randomized clinics will be stored in a data repository for analysis and reporting needs. The targeted visits for each study-eligible patient in all randomized clinics will be the index visit, the first visit at which the OUD-CDS identifies that the patient is study eligible, and all post-index visits through the end of the intervention period, regardless of continued eligibility. This pragmatic cluster-randomized design is the optimal design to effectively and efficiently implement this tool in primary care clinics while protecting against study contamination and allowing for collection of process and outcome data at UC clinics.

Mixed Methods Approach: Virtually every evidence-based intervention in medicine has turned out to be difficult to implement and maintain in real life practice and to fall far short of fidelity to the process used in randomized trials. As a result, a whole new field of dissemination and implementation research has been developing over the last 20 years. These studies have now gone well beyond the previous paradigm of focusing on changing the attitudes and behaviors of individual physicians to a growing awareness that the need instead is to alter the environment in which physicians work so that it is easier to do the desired evidence-based thing than to stick with old established habit patterns. That means focusing change efforts on organizational factors and practice systems. The Solberg conceptual framework has proven to be particularly helpful in clarifying this new approach.

Simultaneously, there has been increasing interest in transitioning effectiveness clinical trials from traditionally highly selective and controlled circumstances to pragmatic trials that make use of normal care delivery processes and patients.[35] The measurement of such trials has been facilitated by the development of a conceptual framework called RE-AIM, an acronym for 5 key facets of such studies - Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance. Recently, the developers of RE-AIM have recognized the need for more flexible use of this framework, greater use of qualitative methods to understand why interventions are not used consistently, and making adaptations in the implementation approach based on such understandings. The investigators propose to use the RE-AIM framework to guide (1) a monitoring system for intervention problems, (2) a mixed methods evaluation of the reasons for those problems, and (3) modification of the intervention to reduce those problems. These steps will be reiterated in a cyclic fashion, resulting in a more sophisticated approach to the long-standing quality improvement emphasis on Plan-Do-Study-Act rapid cycle tests of change. Furthermore, the team will take advantage of the staggered implementation of the study through three different care systems to ensure that the solutions for intervention problems in Site 1 are not assumed to be the same as the approach in subsequent sites without further RE-AIM monitoring and evaluation.

Being tested
Opioid Wizard
Medical subject headings
Opioid-Related Disorders

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Opioid WizardOther

    The Opioid Wizard is an OUD clinical decision support tool for primary care providers to help assess, diagnose, and treat OUD in primary care (where appropriate).

Study groups in NCT04198428
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Receives OUD-CDSExperimentalClinics will have access to the OUD-CDS (Opioid Wizard)
Receives: Other: Opioid Wizard
Does not Receive the OUD-CDSNo interventionClinics will not have access to the OUD-CDS (Opioid Wizard). These will be "usual care" clinics.

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Number of Patients With OUD Diagnosis

    Patient has an ICD10 diagnosis code for OUD assigned at an encounter or added to the problem list

    Measured: Index visit date through 30 days post-index, inclusive.

  2. Number of Patients With Naloxone Rescue Kit Order

    Patient has a medication order for a naloxone rescue kit

    Measured: Index visit date through 30 days post-index, inclusive.

  3. Number of Patients With a MOUD Order or Referral

    Patient has a medication order for a MOUD or referral for addiction treatment

    Measured: Index visit date through 30 days post-index, inclusive.

  4. Days Covered by MOUD Prescription

    The sum of unique days covered by a MOUD order

    Measured: Index visit date through 90 days post-index, inclusive, with 0 days assigned if there were no MOUD orders.

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Emergency Department Visits Per Patient-year

    Measured: pre: one year through one day prior to the index visit; post: index visit through one year post-index or date of death, whichever was first.

  2. Hospitalizations Per Patient-year

    Measured: pre: one year through one day prior to the index visit; post: index visit through one year post-index or date of death, whichever was first.

  3. Healthcare Costs

    Healthcare costs for prescribed medications and clinical inpatient, emergency, and outpatient services incurred, as documented in insurance claims or clinical encounter data.

    Measured: pre: one year through one day prior to the index visit; post: index visit through one year post-index or date of death, whichever was first.

  4. All-cause Mortality Per 100 Patient-years.

    Measured: index visit through one year post-index, inclusive

  5. Overdoses Per 100 Patient-years.

    Measured: pre: one year through one day prior to the index visit; post: index visit through one year post-index or date of death, whichever was first.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted13 Dec 2019
  2. Study start12 Nov 2019
  3. Primary completion31 Dec 2023
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2023

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Other
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
10,891 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04198428
Sponsor's protocol ID
CTN - 0095
Other IDs
UG1DA040316
Status last verified
Sep 2025
First submitted
3 Dec 2019
Last updated
2 Oct 2025
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Publications

  • Rossom RC, Crain AL, Wright EA, Olson AW, Haller I, Haapala J, Dehmer SP, Hooker SA, Solberg L, O'Connor PJ, Borgert-Spaniol C, Gorodisher J, Miley K, Romagnoli K, Allen C, Tusing L, Ekstrom H, Appana D, Sperl-Hillen JM, Kobylinski M, Huntley K, McCormack J, Chen W, Bart G. Clinical Decision Support System for Primary Care of Opioid Use Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2025 Sep 1;185(9):1079-1089. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.2535.

    PubMed 40658392
  • Olson AW, Bucaloiu A, Allen CI, Tusing LD, Henzler-Buckingham HA, Gregor CM, Freitag LA, Hooker SA, Rossom RC, Solberg LI, Wright EA, Haller IV, Romagnoli KM. 'Do they care?': a qualitative examination of patient perspectives on primary care clinician communication related to opioids in the USA. BMJ Open. 2025 Jan 7;15(1):e090462. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-090462.

    PubMed 39773800
  • Olson AW, Haapala JL, Hooker SA, Solberg LI, Borgert-Spaniol CM, Romagnoli KM, Allen CI, Tusing LD, Wright EA, Haller IV, Rossom RC. The potential impact of clinical decision support on nonwaivered primary care clinicians' prescribing of buprenorphine. Health Aff Sch. 2023 Oct 11;1(4):qxad051. doi: 10.1093/haschl/qxad051. eCollection 2023 Oct.

    PubMed 38756745

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Opioid Wizard in people with Opioid-use Disorder, run by HealthPartners Institute at 3 sites in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 3 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 2 Oct 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 3 sites in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 2 Oct 2025). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Number of Patients With OUD Diagnosis (time frame: Index visit date through 30 days post-index, inclusive.). The study lists 4 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT04198428, which also lists 3 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 2 Oct 2025.

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