Variation in prescribing of opioids for emergency department encounters: A cohort study in the Military Health System.

ABSTRACT: RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Emergency department (ED) clinicians account for approximately 13% of all opioid prescriptions to opioid-naïve patients and variability in the rates of prescribing have been noted among individual clinicians and different EDs. This study elucidates the amount of variability within a unified health system (the U.S. Military Health System [MHS]) with the expectation that understanding the sources of variability will enable health system leaders to improve the quality of decision making.

Methods

The design was a retrospective cohort study examining variation in opioid prescribing within EDs of the US MHS. Participants were Army soldiers who returned from a deployment and received care between October 2009 and September 2016. The exposure was ED encounter

SUBMITTER: Larson MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10281196 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature