Clinical Decision Support to Increase Emergency Department Naloxone Coprescribing: Implementation Report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coprescribing naloxone with opioid analgesics is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) best practice to mitigate the risk of fatal opioid overdose, yet coprescription by emergency medicine clinicians is rare, occurring less than 5% of the time it is indicated. Clinical decision support (CDS) has been associated with increased naloxone prescribing; however, key CDS design characteristics and pragmatic outcome measures necessary to understand replicability and effectiveness have not been reported.

Objective

This study aimed to rigorously evaluate and quantify the impact of CDS designed to improve emergency department (ED) naloxone coprescribing. We hypothesized CDS would increase naloxone coprescribing and the number of naloxone prescriptions filled by

SUBMITTER: Sommers SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11560079 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature