Status:

COMPLETED

Encouraging Judicious Prescribing of Opioids in Los Angeles County

Lead Sponsor:

University of Southern California

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Conditions:

Substance-Related Disorders

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

In collaboration with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office and the State of California's controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System (CURES), the investigators propose to...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • The investigators will not be enrolling subjects. This is an evaluation of a public health intervention involving sending prescriber's factual and nonjudgmental letters, signed by the County Medical Examiner, that would state that a patient the provider had treated with controlled substances died of an opioid poisoning.
  • Prescribers in California for whom at least one of their prescription(s) was filled by a patient who died of an opioid poisoning in Los Angeles County

Exclusion

  • Prescriber is licensed outside the State of California and does not hold a California license, but the prescription was filled in California
  • The prescriber does not have a CURES report on record
  • The prescriber has issued only one opioid prescription in the last 12 months since the time of the deceased death (and the prescription was to the deceased)
  • Prescriptions with unknown Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) number

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

April 5 2019

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

August 8 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

541 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03856593

Start Date

April 5 2019

End Date

August 8 2021

Last Update

March 28 2023

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Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's Office

Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033