Stories to Communicate Individual Risk for Opioid Prescriptions for Back and Kidney Stone Pain: Protocol for the Life STORRIED Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prescription opioid misuse in the United States is a devastating public health crisis; many chronic opioid users were originally prescribed this class of medication for acute pain. Video narrative-enhanced risk communication may improve patient outcomes, such as knowledge of opioid risk and opioid use behaviors after an episode of acute pain.

Objective

Our objective is to assess the effect of probabilistic and narrative-enhanced opioid risk communication on patient-reported outcomes, including knowledge, opioid use, and patient preferences, for patients who present to emergency departments with back pain and kidney stone pain.

Methods

This is a multisite randomized controlled trial. Patients presenting to the acute care facilities of four geographically and

SUBMITTER: Meisel ZF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7545334 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature