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Alternative Title:
Psychiatr Serv
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201500116
Personal Author:
Kim, Hyunjee ; Hartung, Daniel ; Jacob, Lorie ; McCarty, Dennis ; McConnell, K. John
Kim, Hyunjee ; Hartung, Daniel ; Jacob, Lorie ; McCarty, Dennis ; McConnell, K. John Less -
Description:
Objective

This study seeks to understand the distribution of opioid prescribing across providers and patients, and examines how this concentration predicts opioid misuse.

Methods

Using 2013 Oregon Medicaid claims and National Provider ID registry, this study identified patients who filled at least one opioid prescription and providers who prescribed opioids for those patients (N=61,477 Medicaid patients). This study examined the distribution of opioid prescriptions by provider and patient, the extent to which high-volume opioid use was associated with potential opioid misuse, and how this association changes when patients received opioids from providers in the top decile of morphine equivalents (MEQ) prescribed in 2013. This study used four indicators of opioid misuse: doctor and pharmacy shopping for opioid prescriptions, opioid prescription overlap, and opioid and benzodiazepine prescription overlap.

Results

Opioid use and prescriptions were heavily concentrated among the top 10% opioid users and prescribers. Those high-volume opioid users and prescribers accounted for 83.2% and 80.8% in MEQ of entire opioids prescribed. Patients’ increasing use of MEQ was associated with most measures of opioid misuse. Patients receiving opioids from high-volume prescribers had a higher probability of opioid prescription overlap and opioid and benzodiazepine prescription overlap, but the increase was significant only among patients who received high doses of opioids and the size of the increase was modest.

Conclusions

Whereas current policies emphasize reducing opioid prescriptions across all patients and providers, study results suggest potential for policies that focus on high-volume opioid users and prescribers.


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Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Analgesics, Opioid Article Drug Prescriptions Female Humans Male Medicaid Middle Aged Oregon Practice Patterns, Physicians' Prescription Drug Misuse Registries Young Adult
Source:
Psychiatr Serv. 67(4):397-404.
Pubmed ID:
26766755
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4912042
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
UG1 DA015815/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; R33 DA035640/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; U01 CE002500/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R01 DA 030431/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; P50 DA018165/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; ... More +
UG1 DA015815/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; R33 DA035640/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; U01 CE002500/CE/NCIPC CDC HHS/United States ; R01 DA 030431/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; P50 DA018165/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; R01 DA030431/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; R01MH1000001/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R01 MH100001/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; R33DA035640,/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States ; R01 DA029716/DA/NIDA NIH HHS/United States Less -
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:08bce3e5efaf3692abeb5567fe6e45b7803f97d7d99d70b0e9ae03dfbeb0a128
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/39937/cdc_39937_DS1.pdf
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