The Impact of a PDMP-EHR Data Integration combined with Clinical Decision Support on Opioid and Benzodiazepine Prescribing Across Clinicians in a Metropolitan Area

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• Alternative Title:
  J Addict Med
• Personal Author:
  Calcaterra, Susan L. ; Butler, Maria ; Olson, Katie ; Blum, Joshua
• Description:
  Introduction
  
  Despite inconclusive evidence that prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) reduce opioid-related mortality, guidelines recommend PDMP review with opioid prescribing. Some reported barriers to use include time-consuming processes to obtain data and workflow disruptions.
  
  Methods
  
  We provided access to a PMDP-electronic health record (EHR) integrated program to 123 clinicians in one healthcare system. Remaining clinicians within the healthcare system and metropolitan area did not receive PDMP-EHR integration program access. We identified changes in opioid prescribing by linking prescription data available in the state PMDP database to individual clinicians. The primary outcome was change in receipt of high dose opioid prescriptions (>90 milligram morphine equivalents) by Colorado residents before and after program integration. Secondary outcomes included changes in long-acting opioid receipt and overlapping opioid and benzodiazepine prescription days. Next, we surveyed clinicians to assess their perspectives on PDMP data acquisition before and after PDMP-EHR integration program access.
  
  Results
  
  High-dose opioid receipt decreased significantly across all three clinician groups (PDMP-EHR integration program access 27.6%, to 6.9%, p < 0.001; no program access in the same healthcare system 4.8% to 2.9%, p < 0.001, and no program access across the metropolitan area 13.5% to 6.1%, p < 0.001). Clinicians reported improved access to PDMP data using the PDMP-EHR integrated program compared to the state PDMP website (98.6%).
  
  Conclusions
  
  Further study of PDMP-EHR integration programs on patient and clinician outcomes may illuminate the role of this technology in public health and in clinical practice.
• Subjects:
  • Analgesics, Opioid
  • Benzodiazepines
  • Decision Support Systems, Clinical
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Humans
  • Morpholines
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians'
• Keywords:
  • PDMP
  • prescription drug monitoring
  • opioid
  • benzodiazepine
• Source:
  J Addict Med. 16(3):324-332
• Pubmed ID:
  34392255
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8831644
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  K08 DA049905/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U17 CE002719/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/114379/cdc_114379_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 405.55 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
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