NCT04927351

Nudges for Opioid Reduction After Major Surgery Trial

Nudges for Opioid Reduction After Major Surgery

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 484 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Washington · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a prospective pilot trial to evaluate a new electronic medical record based intervention to improve discharges after surgery. The investigators hypothesize that standard discharge medications after surgery will help to optimize opioid prescribing and potentially decrease healthcare utilization in the first 30 days after surgery.

Detailed description

This is a 2-arm parallel randomized trial comparing a new electronic medical record (EMR)-based intervention to usual care after surgery. All patients will receive their usual peri- and intraoperative care. Then, upon discharge, their providers will see the new EMR-based discharge order set (intervention arm) or not (usual care). The investigators hypothesize that standard discharge medication order sets after surgery will help to optimize opioid prescribing and potentially decrease healthcare utilization in the first 30 days after surgery.

Conditions

• Surgery

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Electronic Medical Record Based Discharge Medication Order Set	New medication discharge order set including recommended opioid quantities, adjunct pain medication

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-11-17
• Primary completion: 2022-12-01
• Completion: 2024-12-01
• First posted: 2021-06-16
• Last updated: 2024-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States