Improving Residents' Safe Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain Using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Internal medicine residents care for a sizable number of patients with chronic pain. Programs need educational strategies to promote safe opioid prescribing.

Objective

To describe a safe opioid prescribing education program utilizing an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) and report the resulting impact on residents' knowledge, confidence, and self-reported practices.

Methods

Using a quasi-experimental design, 39 internal medicine residents from an urban academic medical center were assigned to 1 of 4 groups: 1-hour lecture only, lecture followed by immediate OSCE, lecture followed by 4-month delayed OSCE, and control. Safe opioid prescribing knowledge, confidence, and self-reported practices were assessed at baseline and at 8 months.

Result

SUBMITTER: Alford DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4936858 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature