Improving the design of California's prescription drug monitoring program.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The US CDC identified prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) as a tool to address the contemporary opioid crisis, but few studies have investigated PDMP usability and effectiveness from the users' perspective. Even fewer have considered how practices differ across medical domains. In this study, we aimed to address these gaps, soliciting perspectives on PDMPs from providers contending with the opioid crisis: physicians working in emergency departments (EDs) and pain management clinics. We aimed to provide practical design recommendations to improve PDMP workflow integration, as well as controlled substance history retrieval, interpretation, and decision support.

Methods

We conducted 16 in-depth semi-structured interviews with practicing emergency and pain ph

SUBMITTER: Hussain MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6951861 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature