Leveraging policy to reduce chronic opioid use by educating and empowering community dwelling adults: a study protocol for the TAPERING randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opioid use has risen to epidemic proportions across Canada, with increasing evidence of harms including accidental overdose and death. Policy-makers have called for effective approaches to promote opioid reduction. One promising method from deprescribing randomized trials is to empower patients through direct-to-patient education. The current trial will evaluate the effectiveness of a government-led mail-out of educational information to adult community-dwelling, chronic opioid users on the reduction of opioids compared to usual care.

Methods

This is a pragmatic, prospective, cluster randomized, parallel-arm controlled trial, comparing mailed distribution of a direct-to-patient educational brochure for chronic opioid use (intervention arm) to usual care (control a

SUBMITTER: Turner JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6617933 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature