Helping doctors use proven pain and safer opioid care
HD2A RASC - Pain Implementation Support Core
This project helps clinics and doctors adopt proven pain treatments and safer opioid practices so patients get better pain control and less risk of overdose.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Stanford University NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Stanford, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11180212 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
From a patient's perspective, the Pain Implementation Support Core helps clinics put evidence-based pain care into everyday practice by offering training, tools, and coaching for clinicians and staff. It partners with primary care and specialty clinics to change workflows, add decision-support tools, and track outcomes like pain, opioid prescribing, and overdose-related harms. The core collects and analyzes data from participating sites to learn which approaches work best in different settings and shares successful strategies across health centers. If your clinic joins, you may see new treatment options, safer opioid practices, and chances to share your experience to improve care.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are people with chronic pain or those on long-term opioid therapy who receive care at participating clinics and want safer, evidence-based pain management.
Not a fit: People with short-term acute pain, those not receiving care at participating clinics, or those without access to participating U.S. health centers may not directly benefit from this core.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this effort could help more people receive effective pain care while reducing opioid-related harms such as overdose.
How similar studies have performed: Similar implementation efforts have sometimes improved guideline use and reduced risky opioid prescribing, though sustained, wide-scale change has been uneven.
Where this research is happening
Stanford, United States
- Stanford University — Stanford, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Becker, William C — Stanford University
- Study coordinator: Becker, William C
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.