Army and Navy ECHO Pain Telementoring Improves Clinician Opioid Prescribing for Military Patients: an Observational Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opioid overdose deaths occur in civilian and military populations and are the leading cause of accidental death in the USA.

Objective

To determine whether ECHO Pain telementoring regarding best practices in pain management and safe opioid prescribing yielded significant declines in opioid prescribing.

Design

A 4-year observational cohort study at military medical treatment facilities worldwide.

Participants

Patients included 54.6% females and 46.4% males whose primary care clinicians (PCCs) opted to participate in ECHO Pain; the comparison group included 39.9% females and 60.1% males whose PCCs opted not to participate in ECHO Pain.

Intervention

PCCs attended 2-h weekly Chronic Pain and Opioid Management TeleECHO Clinic (ECHO Pain), which incl

SUBMITTER: Katzman JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6420488 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature