Toward Safer Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain in High Risk Populations

Completed

Conditions studied: HIV Disease, Chronic Pain

In brief

The overarching plan for TOWER is to develop and test an algorithmic version of the Center for Disease Control Guidelines (CDCG) tailored for a specific primary care setting, the HIV primary care clinic. This CDCG intervention incorporates communication and implementation strategies tailored for the HIV primary care setting, and enabled with technology (an app for use by patients and EMR tools for providers).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03669939

Run by

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

People needed

42

Starts

2018-10-05

Expected to finish

2020-09-30

Last updated by the study team

2020-10-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Attending physician or advance practice provider in one of the Institute of Advanced Medicine (IAM) clinics
• Designated PCP for at least 5 patients to whom he/she prescribes opioids
• Willing and able to adhere to study procedures including randomization, and refraining from discussion of study procedures with other clinical staff or patients

You may not qualify if…

• Unwillingness to undergo randomization
• Plans to leave IAM within the study period.

Where it is running

• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — New York, New York, United States

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