Clinical trials: Opioid Prescribing
Opioid Dependence
DE-eSCALation of Opioids Post-surgical dischargE
The Descale Study aims to: 1. Look at the prescribing trends of opioids and the scale of long-term use following surgery within East Kent (United Kingdom) 2.
- Trial name
- DESCALE (NCT06396663)
- Testing
- Rapid Opioid de-escalation, Gradual Opioid de-escalation, Continuation of opioids
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Kent
Analgesics Opioid
A Strategy to Reduce Opioid Drug Prescribing by Clinicians
Under the auspices of the Oral Health Section of the NC Department of Health and Human Services clinician-investigators from the UNC Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department are conducting a survey to assess current analgesic…
- Trial name
- NCT03809507
- Testing
- Qualtrics survey questions
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 895 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Opioid Use, Unspecified
Investigating Interventions to Reduce Residual Opioids in the Home Following Legitimate Opioid Prescribing in Children.
The overall objective of this study is to evaluate strategies to reduce unused opioids prescribed for pediatric acute post-surgical pain management.
- Trial name
- NCT04219397
- Testing
- Medication take back, Medication home disposal
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 83 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Opioid Misuse and Addiction, Pain
Toward Zero Prescribed Opioids for Outpatient General Surgery
Investigators have created an opioid reduction "package" which includes patient education, non-narcotic pain control instructions, and limited (or no) opioid pain prescriptions provided at discharge in an attempt to reduce the…
- Trial name
- NCT05327777
- Testing
- Oxycodone, Zero Opioid Protocol
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 129 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Thomas Jefferson University
Anxiety, Chronic Pain
Controlled Substance Treatment Agreements in an Internal Medicine Residents' Clinic
The purpose of this study is to characterize and improve controlled substance, carisoprodol and tramadol use in an internal medicine residents' clinic.
- Conditions
- Anxiety, Chronic Pain, Opioid Use, Unspecified
- Trial name
- NCT02244099
- Testing
- Controlled Substance
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 96 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain OneSheet Clinical Trial
The purpose of the study is to determine whether and how having access to the Chronic Pain OneSheet clinical decision support tool in Epic affects the ordering, prescribing, goal-setting, risk monitoring, and outcome measuring…
- Trial name
- NCT04295135
- Testing
- Chronic Pain OneSheet
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 137 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Indiana University
Adverse Drug Effect of Opioids, Adverse Drug Effect of Benzodiazepines
Reducing Concurrent Opioid-Benzodiazepine Prescriptions
The purpose of this effort is to use informative e-mails to improve the process of prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines within the National Capital Region/Military Health System (NCR/MHS), with the aim of decreasing…
- Trial name
- NCT03887247
- Testing
- E-mail Alert
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 2,234 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
Acute Pain
A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Economic Approaches to Reduce Unnecessary Opioid Prescribing
In this study, the investigators will evaluate the effect of a health system initiative aiming to change clinician opioid prescribing behaviors using two behavioral economic interventions - individual audit feedback and peer…
- Trial name
- REDUCE (NCT03825549)
- Testing
- Individual audit feedback, Peer comparison feedback
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 452 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Opioid Use, Postoperative Pain
Opioid Prescribing Practices in Laparoscopic Gynecologic Surgery
The purpose of this study is to compare opioid prescribing practices by either routine provider prescribing practices, or with the use of a calculator, i.e., the Opioid Calculator, published by the University of Michigan…
- Trial name
- NCT06532708
- Testing
- 5x Oxycodone Oral Tablets, 16x Oxycodone Oral Tablets
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Tennessee
Opioid-Related Disorders, Narcotic-Related Disorders
Safe Prescription of Opioids in Primary Care
Opioid analgesics are commonly prescribed addictive narcotics intended for the treatment of pain. Inappropriate prescription of opioids in quantities and for conditions which lack clinical evidence contributes to the risk of…
- Conditions
- Opioid-Related Disorders, Narcotic-Related Disorders, Addiction
- Trial name
- NCT05577026
- Testing
- Educational intervention and prescription feedback, General information on treatment guidelines
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 52 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Region Stockholm
Economics, Fraud
The Effect of Informative Letters on the Prescription and Receipt of Opioids
Inappropriate prescribing exposes patients to health risks and results in wasteful public expenditures. This study will evaluate an approach to fighting abusive prescription: sending letters to suspected potentially inappropriate…
- Conditions
- Economics, Fraud, Delivery of Health Care, Health Expenditures
- Trial name
- NCT03202745
- Testing
- Patient Consequences Letter, Prescriber Consequences Letter
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Surgery, Opioid Use
Increasing Implementation of Post-Operative Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
The objective of this research study is to evaluate the effect of a quality improvement initiative carried out by a health system opioid stewardship task force aiming to increase clinician post-operative prescribing adherence…
- Conditions
- Surgery, Opioid Use, Opioid Misuse, Prescription Opioid Misuse
- Trial name
- NCT05358522
- Testing
- Opioid Prescribing Report Cards
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 26,562 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
Medication Abuse, Harm Reduction
Clinical Decision Support to Improve System Naloxone Co-prescribing
The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of a clinical decision support (CDS) alert to facilitate the co-prescribing of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal agent, with high-risk opioid prescriptions.
- Conditions
- Medication Abuse, Harm Reduction, Opioid Overdose, Opioid Prescribing
- Trial name
- NCT06271668
- Testing
- Naloxone Co-prescribing Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 114,272 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
Opioid-Related Disorders, Benzodiazepine-Related Disorders
De-prescribing Program to Evaluate Falls in Older Adults
Purpose: The proposed study will implement and evaluate the effect of an opioid and benzodiazepine (BZD) de-prescribing intervention on falls risk in older adults.
- Conditions
- Opioid-Related Disorders, Benzodiazepine-Related Disorders, Falls Injury
- Trial name
- NCT04272671
- Testing
- Educational Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Opioid Use
Nudging Providers to Curtail Dangerous Opioid Prescribing: A Trial to Investigate Mechanisms
Despite an enormous policy response, opioid prescribing remains well above historical levels and harms from opioids continue to mount.
- Trial name
- NCT04628832
- Testing
- PMP Use Mandate Letter, Prescribing Information Letter, Prescribing Information + PMP Use Mandate Letter
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 12,000 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Opioid Misuse, Chronic Pain
Consensus-based Algorithms to Address Opioid Misuse Behaviors Among Individuals Prescribed Long-term Opioid Therapy
The NIH Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative has identified a critical next step to addressing the opioid crisis: improving treatments for opioid misuse behaviors (e.g., using more opioids than prescribed, illicit…
- Trial name
- NCT05182606
- Testing
- Pilot study of algorithms implementation package
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 49 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Pittsburgh
Opioid Use, Unspecified, Prescription Drug Abuse (Not Dependent)
An Opioid Prescribing Nudge
Analyze baseline concurrent opioid prescribing metrics at the individual prescriber level in the Duke Health System on the identified three main outcome measures.
- Conditions
- Opioid Use, Unspecified, Prescription Drug Abuse (Not Dependent), Prescription Drug Abuse and Dependency, Health Behavior
- Trial name
- OHS (NCT04069403)
- Testing
- Automated Reports on prescription patterns for their patients
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 427 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Duke University
Inappropriate Prescribing, Implementation Science
Reduction of Low-value Prescribing Through Audit and Feedback
The objective is to estimate the effect attributable to a primary care pharmacist-led audit and feedback (AF) strategy compared to the currently used AF strategy as a management tool to evaluate healthcare performance focusing on…
- Conditions
- Inappropriate Prescribing, Implementation Science, Behavioral Sciences
- Trial name
- AFFAP (NCT07336550)
- Testing
- Usual AF, Facilitated AF
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 540 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Basque Health Service
Opioid Use
Promoting Clinical Guidelines for Opioid Prescribing
This study aims to understand the optimal sequencing and combination of implementation strategies that specific types of clinics and prescribers need to adopt clinical guidelines for opioid prescribing.
- Trial name
- NCT04044521
- Testing
- Systems consultation
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 268 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Post Operative Pain Control, Narcotic Use
Sprix for Postoperative Pain Control Following Gynecologic Surgery
The ongoing opioid epidemic has altered both how physicians prescribe narcotics and patients' perceptions of those prescriptions.
- Conditions
- Post Operative Pain Control, Narcotic Use, Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Urinary Incontinence , Stress
- Trial name
- NCT04444830
- Testing
- Sprix
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Louisville