Can academic detailing reduce opioid prescriptions in chronic non-cancer pain?

ABSTRACT:

Background

One measure to support optimal opioid prescription is academic detailing (AD) with one-to-one visits by trained professionals (academic detailers) to general practitioners (GPs).

Objective

To investigate the usefulness of AD visits on GPs' opioid prescribing patterns in Norway, and academic detailers' experiences with AD visits to GPs on opioid prescription.

Methods

Design: A quantitative registry study on opioid prescriptions and a qualitative focus group interview study with academic detailers.

Participants

For the registry study, municipalities where more than 75% of the GPs had received an AD visit were considered intervention municipalities, whereas in the non-intervention municipalities no GPs had received AD-visits. In the focus groups, academ

SUBMITTER: Espnes KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10042395 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature