Status:
COMPLETED
Prescribing Opioid Pain Relievers in the Emergency Department: Understanding and Optimizing the Encounter
Lead Sponsor:
Northwestern University
Collaborating Sponsors:
Emergency Medicine Foundation
Conditions:
Opioid Use, Unspecified
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The investigators overall study objective is to improve patients knowledge and safe use of opioid pain relievers upon discharge from the Emergency Department.
Detailed Description
Recent studies indicate that emergency department (ED) discharge processes - including written and spoken communications - are inadequate, and patients often leave without the knowledge necessary to p...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- prescribed an opioid pain reliever
- English Speaking
Exclusion
- Non-English Speaking
- Clinically unstable, psychologically impaired or intoxicated as judged by the research staff member.
- Chronic opioid use, defined as daily or near daily use of opioid pain relievers for the past 90 days.
- admitted to hospital
- unable to complete follow up phone interview in 4 - 7 days.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2012
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
278 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02299024
Start Date
October 1 2012
End Date
May 1 2013
Last Update
August 20 2019
Active Locations (1)
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Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611