Clinical Trial: Opioid Tapering After Hospital Discharge: Testing an Intervention to Improve Post-operative Opioid Prescribing

U.S., April 4 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07510373) titled 'Opioid Tapering After Hospital Discharge: Testing an Intervention to Improve Post-operative Opioid Prescribing' on March 30.

Brief Summary: The investigator team proposes a randomized clinical trial (RCT) to test a discharge opioid taper support ("DOTS") intervention that is embedded in the providers' workflow in the EHR to prompt them to prescribe an opioid taper for patients after orthopedic surgery that is tailored to patients' expected analgesic needs. DOTS includes: 1) a recommendation for a patient-specific opioid taper schedule based on opioid use prior to discharge, 2) an automated discharge opioid prescription based on the ...