Differences in Opioid Prescribing Among Generalist Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine if there are differences in opioid prescribing among generalist physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs) to Medicare Part D beneficiaries.

Design

Serial cross-sectional analysis of prescription claims from 2013 to 2016 using publicly available data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Subjects

All generalist physicians, NPs, and PAs who provided more than 10 total prescription claims between 2013 and 2016 were included. These prescribers were subsetted as practicing in a primary care, urgent care, or hospital-based setting.

Methods

The main outcomes were total opioid claims and opioid claims as a proportion of all claims in patients treated by these prescribers in each of the three settings of

SUBMITTER: Ellenbogen MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6953344 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature