Trials / Not Yet Recruiting
Not Yet RecruitingNCT06527079
Evaluation of Clinical Decision Support in Opioid Tapering
- Status
- Not Yet Recruiting
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 200,000 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 12 Years – 89 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The 2022 Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) clinical practice guideline for prescribing opioids for pain recommends that when tapering a patient's opioid dose, doses should be decreased at a slow rate to reduce the risk of withdrawal symptoms, overdose, and to promote tolerance of the tapering. This project will evaluate a clinical decision support (CDS) tool in the form of a clinical care pathway that gives providers information, recommendations, and educational material on strategies for opioid tapering. Primary care providers will be randomized at the clinic location to a control arm or intervention arm. The control arm will have the clinical care pathway available, but will not be reminded of the pathway when tapering a patient. The intervention arm will receive a nudge when prescribing a tapering opioid strategy to a patient to use the clinical care pathway. The rate of opioid tapering in line with CDC guidelines will be examined as well as long-term patient outcomes of opioid overdose or poisoning using existing patient health records. The study period will be approximately 18 months.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Opioid Tapering Pathway Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Clinical decision support in the form of an electronic health record (EHR)-integrated, provider facing notification suggesting the provider utilize a clinical care pathway that provides resources and decision support in opioid tapering in line with CDC guidelines. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2026-02-01
- Primary completion
- 2026-12-01
- Completion
- 2027-06-01
- First posted
- 2024-07-30
- Last updated
- 2025-12-10
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT06527079. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.