Prescription Drug Monitoring Program: Registration and Use by Prescribers and Pharmacists Before and After Legal Mandatory Registration, California, 2010-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the effect of California's prescription drug monitoring program's (PDMP) registration mandate on use of the PDMP.

Methods

We evaluated the effect of California's mandatory PDMP registration law by fitting time series models on the percentage of clinicians registered for California's PDMP and the percentage of clinicians who were active PDMP users (users who created ≥ 1 patient prescription reports in a given month) from 2010 through 2017. We also compared PDMP use among early PDMP adopters (clinicians who registered > 8 months before the mandatory registration deadline) versus late adopters (clinicians who registered ≤ 8 months before the deadline).

Results

Mandatory registration was associated with increases in active PDMP users: 53.5% increase

SUBMITTER: Shev AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6236755 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature