CompletedNot Applicable

A Quality Improvement Project to Investigate Individual Provider Variation in Opioid Prescribing From the Emergency Department

United States109 participantsStarted 2016-02-01

Plain-language summary

This is a study of emergency physicians' prescribing patterns related to opioid (narcotic) medications. We are trying to determine whether giving providers access to their own prescribing data influences their prescribing patterns.

Who can participate

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Provider who practices Emergency Medicine in one or more of four UMass-affiliated EDs (UMassMemorial Medical Center, Marlborough Hospital, and Clinton Hospital), including attending physicians, resident physicians, and advanced practice providers (PAs and NPs). * Have placed at least one electronic prescription for a medication of interest (namely opioids) in the PulseCheck electronic medical record system during the 12 months prior to the implementation of the opioid guidelines * Be actively practicing in a UMass-affiliated ED at time of implementation of the guidelines Exclusion Criteria: * None

What they're measuring

Change in number of opioid prescriptions per hundred patients seen

Timeframe: Pre-intervention baseline compared to 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 months post-intervention

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02665429

SponsorUniversity of Massachusetts, Worcester

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2017-03-01

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