Status:
COMPLETED
Encouraging Judicious Prescribing of Opioids in Los Angeles County
Lead Sponsor:
University of Southern California
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Conditions:
Substance-Related Disorders
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office and the State of California's controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES), the investigators propose to...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- The investigators will not be enrolling subjects. This is an evaluation of a public health intervention involving sending prescriber's factual and nonjudgmental letters, signed by the County Medical Examiner, that would state that a patient the provider had treated with controlled substances died of an opioid poisoning.
- Prescribers in California for whom at least one of their prescription(s) was filled by a patient who died of an opioid poisoning in Los Angeles County
Exclusion
- Prescriber is licensed outside the State of California and does not hold a California license, but the prescription was filled in California
- The prescriber does not have a CURES report on record
- The prescriber has issued only one opioid prescription in the last 12 months since the time of the deceased death (and the prescription was to the deceased)
- Prescriptions with unknown Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) number
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 5 2019
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 8 2021
Estimated Enrollment :
541 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03856593
Start Date
April 5 2019
End Date
August 8 2021
Last Update
March 28 2023
Active Locations (1)
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Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033