State Medical Board Policy and Opioid Prescribing: A Controlled Interrupted Time Series.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In March 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued opioid prescribing guidelines for chronic noncancer pain. In response, in April 2016, the North Carolina Medical Board launched the Safe Opioid Prescribing Initiative, an investigative program intended to limit the overprescribing of opioids. This study focuses on the association of the Safe Opioid Prescribing Initiative with immediate and sustained changes in opioid prescribing among all patients who received opioid and opioid discontinuation and tapering among patients who received high-dose (>90 milligrams of morphine equivalents), long-term (>90 days) opioid therapy.

Methods

Controlled and single interrupted time series analysis of opioid prescribing outcomes before and after the implementa

SUBMITTER: Ranapurwala SI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7902466 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature