An opioid overdose curriculum for medical residents: Impact on naloxone prescribing, knowledge, and attitudes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite escalating opioid overdose death rates, addiction medicine is underrepresented in residency curricula. Providing naloxone to at-risk patients, relatives, and first responders reduces overdose deaths, but rates of naloxone prescribing remain low. The goal of this study is to examine the impact of a brief curricular intervention for internal medicine residents on naloxone prescribing rates, knowledge, and attitudes.

Methods

Internal medicine residents (N = 160) at an urban, tertiary care medical center received two 1-hour didactic sessions addressing overdose prevention, including intranasal naloxone. The number of naloxone prescriptions generated by residents was compared to faculty, who received no similar intervention, in the 3-month periods before and af

SUBMITTER: Taylor JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8916048 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature