High-Risk Opioid Prescribing and Nurse Practitioner Independence.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Concerns around excessive opioid prescribing have been used to argue against the expansion of the scope of practice of nurse practitioners (NPs), but the association of NP practice independence with high-risk opioid prescribing is not well understood.

Objective

To assess whether the rates of high-risk opioid prescribing changed in association with NP independence legislation.

Design, setting, and participants

This difference-in-differences analysis compared rates of high-risk opioid prescribing in 6 states over 2 years following the adoption of NP independence compared with 10 neighboring nonadopting states from January 2012 to December 2021. Prescription insurance claims for 2 874 213 continuously enrolled individuals (members) aged 18 to 64 years from Blu

SUBMITTER: Cusimano LD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11662257 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature