Implementation of mandatory opioid prescribing limits in North Carolina: healthcare administrator and prescriber perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent increases in state laws to reduce opioid prescribing have demonstrated a need to understand how they are interpreted and implemented in healthcare systems. The purpose of this study was to explore the systems, strategies, and resources that hospital administrators and prescribers used to implement the 2017 North Carolina Strengthen Opioid Prevention (STOP) Act opioid prescribing limits, which limited initial prescriptions to a five (for acute) or seven (for post-surgical) days' supply.

Methods

We interviewed 14 hospital administrators and 38 prescribers with degrees in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, business administration and public health working across North Carolina. Interview guides, informed by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research, exp

SUBMITTER: Blackburn NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8565171 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature