The association of prescriber prominence in a shared-patient physician network with their patients receipt of and transitions between risky drug combinations.

ABSTRACT: We are generally interested in the association between a prescribing physician's position in a physician shared-patient network and their patients' receipt of risky drug combinations. An informal physician network (not restricted to a hospital or a health system) of physicians based in Ohio was constructed based on overlapping care of patients between physicians reflected in face-to-face visits in Fee-for-service Medicare claims for Ohio-residing beneficiaries. Separately, Medicare prescription drug events for beneficiaries receiving opioids, benzodiazepines, or non-benzodiazepine sedative hypnotics (sedative hypnotics) prescribed by these physicians in 2014 were used to map patients' drug status with respect to these three classes. We assigned patient prescription receipt to time-varying

SUBMITTER: O'Malley AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12279612 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature