Assessment of opioid prescribing practices before and after implementation of a health system intervention to reduce opioid overprescribing.
Meisenberg BR, Grover J, Campbell C, et al. Assessment of Opioid Prescribing Practices Before and After Implementation of a Health System Intervention to Reduce Opioid Overprescribing. JAMA Netw Open. 2018;1(5):e182908. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.2908.
Opioid deaths are a major public health and patient safety hazard. This multimodal, health care system-level intervention to reduce opioid overprescribing consisted of changes to the electronic health record, patient education, and provider education and oversight. Opioid prescribing decreased substantially (58%) systemwide with no discernible decrement in patient satisfaction.