Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, Frances Shofer, Abby Dolan, Erica B Goldberg, Karin V Rhodes, Erik P Hess, Venkatesh R Bellamkonda, Jeanmarie Perrone, Carolyn C Cannuscio, Lance Becker, Melissa A Rodgers, Michael M Zyla, Jeffrey J Bell, Sharon McCollum, Eden Engel-Rebitzer, Marilyn M Schapira, Zachary F Meisel
BACKGROUND: To determine the impact of personalized risk communication and opioid prescribing on nonprescribed opioid use, we conducted a secondary analysis of RCT participants followed prospectively for 90 days after an E.D. visit for acute back or kidney stone pain. METHODS: One thousand three hundred-one individuals were randomized during an encounter at four academic EDs into a probabilistic risk tool arm, a narrative-enhanced probabilistic risk tool arm, or a general risk information arm (control)...
March 4, 2023: Academic Emergency Medicine