Increasing Awareness of Opioid Disposal in the Orthopedic Patient Population

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knee Total Joint Replacement; Hip Total Joint Replacement

Treatments: Behavioral: Education on disposal of opioids

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03954964

18-011832

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers are trying to determine if providing education on proper disposal of unused opioid medications to the orthopedic patient undergoing a planned hip or knee total joint replacement will increase the percentage of patients who properly dispose of unused opioids.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult 18 + years
• Planned total hip or knee replacement surgery
• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Pediatric patients 17 and younger
• Non-English speaking patients
• Total joint replacement surgery other than Hip and Knee

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects participating in a total joint class for patients undergoing planned hip and knee total joint replacement.

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects participating in a total joint class for patients undergoing planned hip and knee total joint replacement will receive additional education about the disposal of opioids.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education on disposal of opioids