Physicians' Perspectives Regarding Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Use Within the Department of Veterans Affairs: a Multi-State Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: Background: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has implemented robust strategies to monitor prescription opioid dispensing, but these strategies have not accounted for opioids prescribed by non-VA providers. State-based prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are a potential tool to identify VA patients' receipt of opioids from non-VA prescribers, and recent legislation requires their use within VA.

Objective: To evaluate VA physicians' perspectives and experiences regarding use of PDMPs to monitor Veterans' receipt of opioids from non-VA prescribers.

Design: Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews.

Participants: Forty-two VA primary care physicians who prescribed opioids to 15 or more Veterans in 2015. We sampled physi

SUBMITTER: Radomski TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6082216 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature