Collaborative Opioid Taper After Trauma: Preventing Opioid Misuse and Opioid Use Disorder

Pain, Postoperative Clinical Trial

Official title: Collaborative Opioid Taper After Trauma: Preventing Opioid Misuse and Opioid Use Disorder

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The investigators will enroll 100 participants using a randomized control trial design to implement and evaluate an individualized opioid taper program supporting rural Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) caring for patients with moderate to severe trauma discharged on opioids. This study will link a trauma center Physician Assistant (PA) with rural PCPs to facilitate pain care and the individualized opioid taper. The investigators seek to improve patient's pain and opioid outcomes and support the PCPs who assume care for these complex patients after hospital discharge.

Our long term goal is to provide a service that will help trauma patients as they go back into primary care and into pain- and opioid-free living.

Clinical Trial Description

This study explores the feasibility, efficacy, and potential sustainability of a collaborative pain care/opioid taper strategy for patients discharged to a rural PCP practice on opioids after hospitalization for moderate to severe traumatic injury.

The randomized control study design will provide important pilot data on the efficacy of opioid taper in the context of engaged pain management care at the PCP level when the PCP is supported by expert consultation and has broad implications for patient and clinician education. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Opioid Use
• Opioid Use, Unspecified
• Opioid-use Disorder
• Pain, Postoperative
• Substance-Related Disorders
• Trauma
• Wounds and Injuries

• NCT number: NCT04275258
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Washington
• Contact: Adrienne James
• Phone: 206-744-4634
• Email: ajames1@uw.edu
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 1, 2020
• Completion date: January 31, 2022