Drs. Whiteside and Duber to serve as site PI’s for new trial

UW Emergency Medicine has been awarded the Emergency Department-INitiated bupreNOrphine and VAlidaTIOn Network Trial (ED-INNOVATION)

 Grant, Funded by the NIH HEAL initiative.  Drs. Lauren Whiteside and Herbie Duber will serve as site PI’s and recruitment will take place at the UWMC ED.  The PIs of ED-INNOVATION are Dr. Gail D’Onofrio and David Feillin at Yale.

This study will evaluate implementation of emergency department (ED)-initiated BUP in a large number of sites (n=30); compare extended release (XR)-BUP with sublingual (SL) BUP in ED patients with untreated OUD; and develop and validate electronic health record phenotypes of opioid-related illnesses to characterize ED visits, enhance active disease surveillance, and better identify patients eligible for study inclusion.