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Prescription drug monitoring programs: Assessing the association between 'best practices' and opioid use in Medicare
- Source :
- Health Serv Res
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To estimate the impact of implementing prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) best practices on prescription opioid use. DATA SOURCES: 2007–2012 Medicare claims for noncancer pain patients, and PDMP attributes from the Prescription Drug Abuse Policy System. STUDY DESIGN: We derived PDMP composite scores using the number of best practices adopted by states (range: 0‐14), classifying states as either no PDMP, low strength (0
- Subjects :
- Male
Drug Utilization
Pain
Medicare
Gee
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Prescription Drug Monitoring Program
Medical prescription
Association (psychology)
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
business.industry
030503 health policy & services
Health Policy
Opioid use
Prescribing Patterns
Opioid-Related Disorders
United States
Analgesics, Opioid
Opioid
Prescription opioid
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
Female
0305 other medical science
business
medicine.drug
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14756773 and 00179124
- Volume :
- 54
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Health Services Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....28bb451a68c36f706d4f68d2a0fb6346