Evaluation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration With Hospital Electronic Health Records by US County-Level Opioid Prescribing Rates

A Jay Holmgren; Nate C Apathy

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.9085

Evaluation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration With Hospital Electronic Health Records by US County-Level Opioid Prescribing Rates

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Jun 1;3(6):e209085. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.9085.

Authors

A Jay Holmgren¹, Nate C Apathy²

Affiliations

¹ Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indiana University, Indianapolis.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study assesses the level of electronic health record (EHR) and prescription drug monitoring program integration in hospitals in US counties with vs without high opioid prescribing rates.

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Electronic Health Records*
Hospitals / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs* / standards
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs* / statistics & numerical data
Program Evaluation
United States

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

Grants and funding

T15 LM012502/LM/NLM NIH HHS/United States