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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Opioid Overdoses: Exploring Sources of Heterogeneity. [PDF]
Epidemiology, 2019 Background: Prescription drug monitoring program are designed to reduce harms from prescription opioids; however, little is known about what populations benefit the most from these programs. We investigated how the relation between implementation of online prescription drug monitoring programs and rates of hospitalizations ...
Castillo-Carniglia A +9 more
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The current utilization and perceptions of prescription drug monitoring programs among emergency medicine providers in Florida [PDF]
International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2017 Background Pain is among the most commonly treated symptoms in the emergency department, and opioids are commonly prescribed from the emergency department to treat moderate to severe pain.
Henry W. Young +2 more
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Impact of a Mandatory Prescription Drug Monitoring Program on Prescription of Opioid Analgesics by Dentists. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) are statewide databases that collect data on prescription of controlled substances. New York State mandates prescribers to consult the PDMP registry before prescribing a controlled substance such as opioid ...
Linda Rasubala +4 more
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Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 2009 Context: The dramatic rise in the use of prescription opioids to treat non-cancer pain has been paralleled by increasing prescription opioid abuse. However, detailed analyses of these trends and programs to address them are lacking.Objective: To study ...
Richard M. Reisman +3 more
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Hospital Participation in Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs. [PDF]
Hosp Pharm, 2017 The prescription drug abuse epidemic continues to grow. This multifaceted problem requires a multifaceted solution. In this installment, we discuss prescription drug monitoring programs and their relevance to hospital pharmacies.
Fox BI, Felkey BG.
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Prescription drug monitoring programs and neonatal outcomes [PDF]
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019 Abstract Over the last two decades, the number of delivering mothers using or dependent on opiates has increased dramatically, giving rise to a five-fold increase in the proportion of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). First, the current study documents NAS trends in the United States and their substantial variation across states ...
Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, Ning Zhang
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Mandatory use of prescription drug monitoring programs. [PDF]
JAMA, 2015 The United States is in the midst of a prescription opioid overdose and abuse epidemic. The rate of fatal prescription drug overdoses involving opioids almost quadrupled from 1.4 deaths/100 000 people in 1999 to 5.4 deaths/100 000 people in 2011.1 The rate of emergency department visits involving prescription drug misuse–primarily of opioid, anti ...
Haffajee RL, Jena AB, Weiner SG.
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The Mitigating Role of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the Abuse of Prescription Drugs [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 In response to the epidemic of prescription-drug abuse, now 49 US states have passed legislation to establish Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs). These programs track controlled-substance prescribing and usage behavior in an effort to improve patient outcomes and identify and preempt access by drug abusers. We exploit variation in the timing
Birk, Erica G., Waddell, Glen R.
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Prescription Opioid-Related Outcomes in the United States. [PDF]
Epidemiol Rev, 2020 Abstract Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are a crucial component of federal and state governments’ response to the opioid epidemic. Evidence about the effectiveness of PDMPs in reducing prescription opioid–related adverse outcomes is mixed.
Puac-Polanco V +5 more
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Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2020 Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) is an electronic database that tracks the prescriptions of controlled drugs with its aims to combat the incidence of drug abuse.
Fahd Alogaili +2 more
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