Preventing Opioid Misuse Through Safe Opioid Use Agreements Between Patients and Surgical Providers

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston240 enrolled

Overview

The effect of pain agreements to reduce opioid misuse is an accepted practice in many settings, but it has never been applied to the acute care setting. Pain agreements are considered the standard of care for chronic pain management reliant on opioid prescribing, and they are a mandated component of care in many states. Therefore, the adjunct of safe opioid use agreements into acute pain management offers a logical extension of current practices from chronic pain management. This study will test the use of agreements to improve safe opioid use to prevent misuse and opioid-related harm.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

TRIPLE

Enrollment

240

Conditions

Opioid Use Inguinal Hernia Ventral Hernia

Interventions

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: Adult patients (at least 18 years of age), of any gender, who speak English or Spanish, undergoing general surgery procedures with a high likelihood of receiving an opioid prescription (bariatric, inguinal hernia, or ventral hernia), who have their preoperative appointment at UT Physicians Health Center at Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Medical Plaza, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Bellaire Exclusion Criteria: Patients with a known allergy or contra-indication to opioids, pregnancy, signification cognitive impairment, history of opioid misuse/abuse, chronic opioid use, readmission before the follow up appointment

Locations (3)

UT Physicians-MIST Bellaire Clinic

Bellaire, Texas, United States

Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital

Houston, Texas, United States

UT Physicians-MIST Sugar Land Clinic

Sugar Land, Texas, United States