Association of Lowering Default Pill Counts in Electronic Medical Record Systems With Postoperative Opioid Prescribing.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Reliance on prescription opioids for postprocedural analgesia has contributed to the opioid epidemic. With the implementation of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, there has been increasing use of computerized order entry systems for medication prescriptions, which is now more common than handwritten prescriptions. The EMR can autopopulate a default number of pills prescribed, and 1 potential method to alter prescriber behavior is to change the default number presented via the EMR system.

Objective

To investigate the association of lowering the default number of pills presented when prescribing opioids in an EMR system with the amount of opioid prescribed after procedures.

Design, setting, and participants

A prepost intervention study was conducted to

SUBMITTER: Chiu AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583068 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature