Reducing the Pain Behind Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care

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Gonzalez, Jose Luis [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Prabhakar, Radhika [1 ,2 ]
Marks, Jennifer [1 ,2 ]
Vigen, Cheryl L. P. [1 ,4 ,5 ]
Shukla, Jagruti [2 ]
Bannister, Beatrisa [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Southern Calif, 2020 Zonal Ave,IRD 306, Los Angeles, CA 90033 USA
[2] LAC USC Med Ctr, Los Angeles, CA USA
[3] Univ Southern Calif, USC Gehr Family Ctr Hlth Syst Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA
[4] Univ Southern Calif, Biostat Epidemiol & Res Design BERD, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA
[5] Southern Calif Clin & Translat Sci Inst SC CTSI, Los Angeles, CA USA
关键词
Opioids; Chronic Pain; Primary Care; Resident Clinic; DEPRESSION; CONTINUITY; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIANS; RESIDENTS; SAFER;
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10.1093/pm/pnz365
中图分类号
R614 [麻醉学];
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100217 ;
摘要
Objective. To describe the efficacy of a comprehensive approach aimed at reducing opioid prescribing in an internal medicine resident clinic. Design. Retrospective observational study. Setting. Internal medicine primary care resident clinic at a large urban academic medical center. Subjects. All patients receiving opioid prescriptions from the primary care clinic. Methods. We reviewed pharmacy dispensing data for two hospital-affiliated pharmacies for resident primary care patients filling opioid prescriptions between July 2016 and July 2018. We instituted a comprehensive set of interventions that included resident education, limiting supervision of encounters for long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) to a fixed set of faculty champions, and providing alternate modalities for pain control. We calculated the change in number of opioid prescriptions dispensed, number of patients receiving opioid prescriptions, morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs) dispensed, and average per-patient daily MMEs dispensed. Results. We observed an average monthly reduction of 2.44% (P< 0.001) in the number of prescriptions dispensed and a 1.83% (P< 0.001) monthly reduction in the number of patients receiving prescriptions. Over the two-year period, there was a 74.3% reduction in total MMEs prescribed and a 66.5% reduction in the average MMEs prescribed per patient. Conclusions. Our findings demonstrate a significant reduction in opioid prescribing after implementation of a comprehensive initiative. Although our study was observational in nature, we witnessed a nearly threefold decrease in opioid prescribing compared with national trends. Our results offer important insights for other primary care resident clinics hoping to engender safe prescribing practices and curb high-dose opioid prescribing.
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页码:1377 / 1384
页数:8
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