Prescription monitoring programs and emergency department visits involving opioids, 2004-2011.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the association between prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) implementation and emergency department (ED) visits involving opioid analgesics.

Methods

Rates of ED visits involving opioid analgesics per 100,000 residents were estimated from the Drug Abuse Warning Network dataset for 11 geographically diverse metropolitan areas in the United States on a quarterly basis from 2004 to 2011. Generalized estimating equations assessed whether implementation of a prescriber-accessible PDMP was associated with a difference in ED visits involving opioid analgesics. Models were adjusted for calendar quarter, metropolitan area, metropolitan area-specific linear time trends, and unemployment rate.

Results

Rates of ED visits involving opioid analgesics i

SUBMITTER: Maughan BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4911899 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature