Assessment of Opioid Prescribing Practices Before and After Implementation of a Health System Intervention to Reduce Opioid Overprescribing.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Overprescribing of opioids has generated and sustains the opioid overdose epidemic. Health systems have a responsibility to lead the effort to reduce overprescribing.

Objective

To measure the effects of multilevel interventions on opioid prescribing within a health system.

Design, setting, and participants

Quality improvement study comparing a 6-month preintervention baseline with a 16-month postintervention period ending in April 2018. Inpatient and outpatient clinical activity within a regional health system including an acute care hospital, same-day surgery, and outpatient clinics. Opioid prescribing activity by hundreds of clinicians involving over a million clinical encounters was measured using a health system's electronic medical record.

Intervent

SUBMITTER: Meisenberg BR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324493 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature