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The effect of a tapering plan combined with telephone counselling to assist patients in opioid tapering after surgery remains unexplored. A prospective, randomized controlled trial investigating the effect of a tapering plan in combination with telephone counselling in patients scheduled for spine surgery on a degenerative basis is therefore conducted.


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Background with aim: Preoperative opioid-use is one of the strongest predictors for not tapering off opioids after discharge from surgery. In qualitative studies on chronic opioid use, patients call for further help and assistance in tapering opioids. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of receiving a tapering plan at discharge and telephone counselling one week after discharge on short and long-term opioid-use in preoperative opioid-users who undergo scheduled spine surgery. Methods: One-hundred and ten adult patients scheduled for spine surgery will be included in an investigator-initiated, prospective, randomized, controlled trial with two arms: an intervention arm (receiving tapering plan at discharge and telephone counselling on opioid tapering 5-7 days after discharge) or a control arm (receiving no tapering plan or telephone counselling). The study is approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency (1-16-02-211-19) and the Central Denmark Region Committees on Health Research Ethics (1-10-72-138-19). Hypothesis: Our primary hypothesis is that a tapering plan and telephone counselling reduces the percentage of patients who exceed their preoperative opioid consumption from 25% to 5% one month after discharge. ;


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NCT number NCT04140955
Study type Interventional
Source Aarhus University Hospital
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date October 22, 2019
Completion date December 8, 2020

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