Association between electronic medical record implementation of default opioid prescription quantities and prescribing behavior in two emergency departments
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Research brief (Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics)
- Author(s):
- Delgado, M. Kit, author Shofer, Frances S., author Patel, Mitesh S., author Halpern, Scott, author Edwards, Christopher, author Meisel, Zachary F., author Perrone, Jeanmarie, author
- Contributor(s):
- Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, 2018
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Analgesics, Opioid Drug Prescriptions Electronic Health Records Emergency Service, Hospital Inappropriate Prescribing -- prevention & control Practice Patterns, Physicians' Prescription Drug Overuse -- prevention & control Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Key Findings. Setting a low quantity of opioid tablets as the default option in electronic medical record prescribing orders may "nudge" clinicians to prescribe fewer opioids. When two emergency departments implemented a 10-tablet default instead of a manual entry, the proportion of 10-tablet prescriptions written more than doubled, from 20.6% to 43.3%. Conversely, 20-tablet prescriptions decreased from 22.8% to 16.1%, and prescriptions for 11-19 tablets decreased from 33.5% to 20.1%.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (2 unnumbered pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101723229 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101723229