Association of Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances With Opioid Prescribing Rates.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The majority of US states have passed mandates requiring the use of electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) as a tool to reduce rates of opioid prescribing. It is not known whether increasing use of EPCS will have the intended effect.

Objective

To assess the association between use of EPCS and trends in opioid prescribing.

Design, setting, and participants

In this retrospective, longitudinal cohort study of all patients and prescribers in the 50 US states and the District of Columbia from 2010 to 2018, changes in state-level use of EPCS and concurrent changes in opioid prescribing in each state are described. Then the association between changes in the use of EPCS and opioid prescribing are estimated using state and year fixed-effects models

SUBMITTER: Everson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7753903 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature