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Effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing
BACKGROUND: The opioid epidemic is a serious social, economic and public health problem. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of individual institutional opioid prescriber training on prescriber adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC’s) guidelines for respo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10432641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37580088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001915 |
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author | Kaley, Amanda Brenner, Jay M Prince, Anna M Wojcik, Susan M |
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description | BACKGROUND: The opioid epidemic is a serious social, economic and public health problem. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of individual institutional opioid prescriber training on prescriber adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC’s) guidelines for responsible opioid prescribing practices to treat acute pain. METHODS: Opioid prescribing data were collected from an academic medical centre and its associated outpatient clinics. A baseline for opioid prescribing practices was collected for 2 years and 2 months prior to the planned intervention. Departments responsible for 5% or more of the total institutional opioid prescriptions were chosen to study in detail. A number of opioid prescriptions per department per day and their compliance with the maximum daily dose (MDD) recommendations put out by the CDC were determined. INTERVENTION: The hospital administration implemented a mandatory opioid prescriber training as part of their standard annual provider education for all medical staff, who were all required to attest having read it and pass a quiz by 30 September 2019, which was chosen as the end date for the pre-intervention data. Data were analysed preintervention and postintervention to assess the effect of this intervention on opioid prescribing. RESULTS: Overall opioid prescribing rates decreased by 18.3% and there were significant decreases in opioid prescribing rate in five out of the seven departments/divisions. Overall, there was a statistically significant decrease in the compliance with MDD before (71.3%) and after (67.3%) the intervention (4%, 95% CI 3.13% to 4.87% difference, p<0.001). Additionally, there were statistically significant increases in compliance with CDC guidelines in three departments/divisions. However, there was a statistically significant decrease in compliance with CDC guidelines after intervention in two departments. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study were largely encouraging for the effectiveness of this institutional mandatory prescriber training. |
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spelling | pubmed-104326412023-08-18 Effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing Kaley, Amanda Brenner, Jay M Prince, Anna M Wojcik, Susan M BMJ Open Qual Original Research BACKGROUND: The opioid epidemic is a serious social, economic and public health problem. This study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of individual institutional opioid prescriber training on prescriber adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC’s) guidelines for responsible opioid prescribing practices to treat acute pain. METHODS: Opioid prescribing data were collected from an academic medical centre and its associated outpatient clinics. A baseline for opioid prescribing practices was collected for 2 years and 2 months prior to the planned intervention. Departments responsible for 5% or more of the total institutional opioid prescriptions were chosen to study in detail. A number of opioid prescriptions per department per day and their compliance with the maximum daily dose (MDD) recommendations put out by the CDC were determined. INTERVENTION: The hospital administration implemented a mandatory opioid prescriber training as part of their standard annual provider education for all medical staff, who were all required to attest having read it and pass a quiz by 30 September 2019, which was chosen as the end date for the pre-intervention data. Data were analysed preintervention and postintervention to assess the effect of this intervention on opioid prescribing. RESULTS: Overall opioid prescribing rates decreased by 18.3% and there were significant decreases in opioid prescribing rate in five out of the seven departments/divisions. Overall, there was a statistically significant decrease in the compliance with MDD before (71.3%) and after (67.3%) the intervention (4%, 95% CI 3.13% to 4.87% difference, p<0.001). Additionally, there were statistically significant increases in compliance with CDC guidelines in three departments/divisions. However, there was a statistically significant decrease in compliance with CDC guidelines after intervention in two departments. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study were largely encouraging for the effectiveness of this institutional mandatory prescriber training. BMJ Publishing Group 2023-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10432641/ /pubmed/37580088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001915 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2023. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Research Kaley, Amanda Brenner, Jay M Prince, Anna M Wojcik, Susan M Effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing |
title | Effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing |
title_full | Effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing |
title_fullStr | Effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing |
title_full_unstemmed | Effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing |
title_short | Effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing |
title_sort | effect of a targeted quality improvement education on opioid prescribing |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10432641/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37580088 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001915 |
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