Trial reportPloS one2015
Impact of a Mandatory Prescription Drug Monitoring Program on Prescription of Opioid Analgesics by Dentists.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 94 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Prescription Opioid-Related Outcomes in the United States.Epidemiologic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Systematic Literature Review of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2018Pooled it
- A Rapid Review of the Impact of Systems-Level Policies and Interventions on Population-Level Outcomes Related to the Opioid Epidemic, United States and Canada, 2014-2018.Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)Pooled it
- Past-year Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Opioid Prescriptions and Self-reported Opioid Use in an Emergency Department Population With Opioid Use Disorder.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2018Trial
- The prescription drug monitoring program in a multifactorial approach to the opioid crisis: PDMP data, Pennsylvania, 2016-2020.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Cycles of Chronic Opioid Therapy Following Mandatory Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Legislation: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Launching an innovative educational model addressing substance use disorders and dental pain management (Project ECHO® in dentistry).BMC oral health · 2022Article
- Opioids and older adults: Increasing trends in opioid usage in a dental population compared to a National Database (NHANES).Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry · 2022Article
- Comparison of Analgesic Prescriptions for Dental Pain and Patient Pain Outcomes Before vs After an Opioid Reduction Initiative.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Primary Care Implementation of a Mandatory Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in New York City.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2022Article
- Distribution of Opioid Prescribing and High-Risk Prescribing Among U.S. Dentists in 2019.American journal of preventive medicine · 2022Article
- Association Between Statewide Opioid Prescribing Interventions and Opioid Prescribing Patterns in North Carolina, 2006-2018.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2021Article
- Outpatient Prescribing of Antibiotics and Opioids by Veterans Health Administration Providers, 2015-2017.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Characteristics Associated With Opioid and Antibiotic Prescribing by Dentists.American journal of preventive medicine · 2021Article
- Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Opioids in Postsurgical Dental Pain.Journal of dental research · 2020Article
- Effect of short-term prescription opioids on DNA methylation of the OPRM1 promoter.Clinical epigenetics · 2020Article
- Opioid Use During the Six Months After an Emergency Department Visit for Acute Pain: A Prospective Cohort Study.Annals of emergency medicine · 2020Observational
- Overprescribing of Opioids to Adults by Dentists in the U.S., 2011-2015.American journal of preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Strengths and weaknesses of existing data sources to support research to address the opioids crisis.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Review
- Opioid guidelines for common dental surgical procedures: a multidisciplinary panel consensus.International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery · 2020Article
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Abstract
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 analgesics. The effect of mandatory PDMP on opioid drug prescriptions by dentists is not known. This study investigates the impact of mandatory PDMP on frequency and quantity of opioid prescriptions by dentists in a dental urgent care center. Based on the sample size estimate, we collected patient records of a 3-month period before and two consecutive 3-month periods after the mandatory PDMP implementation and analyzed the data on number of visits, treatment types and drug prescriptions using Chi-square tests. For patients who were prescribed pain medications, 452 (30.6%), 190 (14.1%), and 140 (9.6%) received opioid analgesics in the three study periods respectively, signifying a statistically significant reduction in the number of opioid prescriptions after implementation of the mandatory PDMP (p<0.05). Total numbers of prescribed opioid pills in a 3-month period decreased from 5096 to 1120, signifying a 78% reduction in absolute quantity. Prescriptions for non-opioid analgesics acetaminophen increased during the same periods (p<0.05). We conclude that the mandatory PDMP significantly affected the prescription pattern for pain medications by dentists. Such change in prescription pattern represents a shift towards the evidence-based prescription practices for acute postoperative pain.
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