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

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Analgesics, Opioid, Delivery of Health Care, Drug Prescribing, Over Prescribing, Prescribing Patterns, Physician, Practice Management, Medical, Practice Guidelines as Topic

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02665429

Run by

University of Massachusetts, Worcester

People needed

109

Starts

2016-02-01

Expected to finish

2017-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-06-27

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• UMass Clinton Hospital — Clinton, Massachusetts, United States
• UMass Memorial Marlborough Hospital — Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
• UMass Memorial Medical Center — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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