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Created July 25, 2019, last updated almost 4 years ago.
Collection: 106, Score: 754, Trend score: 0, Read count: 993, Articles count: 2, Created: 2019-07-25 12:49:55 UTC. Updated: 2021-02-08 23:50:07 UTC.Notes
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The single greatest predictor of the amount of opioid used after surgical discharge is the amount of postoperative opioid prescribed.
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Reliance on prescription opioids for postprocedural analgesia has contributed to the opioid epidemic. With the implementation of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, there has been increasing use of computerized order entry systems for medication prescriptions, which is now more common than handwritten prescriptions. The EMR can autopopulate a default number of pills prescribed, and 1 potential method to alter prescriber behavior is to change the default number presented via the EMR system. ⋯ Lowering the default number of opioid pills prescribed in an EMR system is a simple, effective, cheap, and potentially scalable intervention to change prescriber behavior and decrease the amount of opioid medication prescribed after procedures.
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