Prescribe to Save Lives (PTSL)

Baystate Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Opioid-Related Disorders; Drug Overdose

Treatments: Behavioral: Implementation intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03175640

R01DA038082 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

BH-15-259

Details and patient eligibility

About

The U.S. is in the midst of an epidemic of opioid overdose deaths. The common use of opioids among persons living with HIV, along with their common use of benzodiazepines, has resulted in high rates of opioid overdose among this population. This study will test the implementation of evidence-based training, mentoring, technical support, and academic detailing to encourage HIV physicians to adopt evidence-based interventions to reduce overdose risk and treat opioid addiction.

Enrollment: 294 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Clinicians and staff of HIV practice sites that:

• Receive Ryan White Funding;
• Treat adults with HIV;
• Have 3 or more prescribing clinicians;
• Have an electronic medical record (EMR) with an electronic medication list.

Exclusion criteria

• Sites located in states with fewer than 500 Persons Living With HIV (PLWH) will be excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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294 participants in 1 patient group

Implementation intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Implementation intervention