Effect of Academic Detailing on Opioid Prescribing by Dentists to Adolescents and Young Adults

Opioid Prescribing Clinical Trial

Official title: Effect of Academic Detailing on Opioid Prescribing by Dentists to Adolescents and Young Adults

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

This randomized controlled trial will test whether an academic detailing educational outreach intervention (referred to as "academic detailing" throughout) decreases opioid prescribing to patients aged 13-30 years among high-prescribing dentists in Southeast Michigan. The primary objective is to evaluate whether an academic detailing intervention reduces the number of dispensed opioid prescriptions to patients aged 13-30 years.

Clinical Trial Description

Using 2023 IQVIA Longitudinal Prescription Database, the study team will identify dentists in the 85th-94th percentile of dispensed opioid prescriptions to patients aged 13-30 years from January 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023 and practice in high-population counties in Southeast Michigan. The study team will randomize these dentists into two study arms. Dentists in the intervention arm will receive an academic detailing session focused on evidence-based pain management education. Dentists in the control will not receive any intervention and will not be contacted. Prescribing will be evaluated using IQVIA data for differential change in the number of dispensed opioid prescriptions to patients aged 13-30 years between the 8 months before and the 8 months after the academic detailing intervention period among intervention versus control dentists. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Opioid Prescribing

• NCT number: NCT06130904
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: University of Michigan
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 1, 2023
• Completion date: November 30, 2024