ACE Pilot 3: Decision Aid 2 Options vs 3 Options
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Summary
This research protocol is exploring a behavioral intervention: shared decision making with the use of a decision aid to select a post-operative analgesic. Specifically, the investigators will examine the impact of shared decision making on analgesic selection for acute pain management when 2 options are presented to the patient as compared to 3 options which includes an opioid prescription for "just-in-case" pain management. The investigators hypothesize that significantly more patients will choice an opioid option when the "just-in-case option is included.
Description
Dentists often prescribe opioids to their patients to manage acute post-surgical pain, with hydrocodone/acetaminophen being the most commonly prescribed opioid combination. With an estimated 56 million tablets of hydrocodone prescribed to 3.5 million high school and young adults each year after third molar extractions, it is vitally important to develop the best evidence for acute pain management following dental procedures. Dentists are among the leading prescribers of opioid analgesics, writing up to 12% of all opioid prescriptions and 31% of opioid prescriptions for young patients. Shared…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18–90 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Be able to understand the informed consent. * Provide signed and dated informed consent form * Be able to understand all directions for data gathering instruments in English * Be willing and able to comply with all study procedures * Planning to undergo extraction of one or more 3rd molars * Be 18 years or older Exclusion Criteria: While the actual analgesic prescribed to the patient may be different then the analgesic selected by the participant (their actual analgesic is NOT part of the research protocol) participants who self-report inability to take ibuprofen, acet…
Interventions
- OtherDecision-Aid with 2-options
This decision aid offers 2 options for post-operative analgesic: a non-opioid combination (ibuprofen/acetaminophen) or an opioid (hydrocodone).
- OtherDecision aid with 3 options
This decision aid offers 3 options for post-operative analgesic: a non-opioid combination (ibuprofen/acetaminophen), an opioid (hydrocodone), or a non-opioid combination with a "just-in-case" opioid prescription.
Location
- Rutgers School of Dental MedicineNewark, New Jersey