A Quality Improvement Project to Investigate Individual Provider Variation in Opioid Prescribing From the Emergency Department
Studieoversigt
Status
Status
Betingelser
Betingelser
Intervention / Behandling
Intervention / Behandling
Detaljeret beskrivelse
Opioid misuse is a known public safety threat and public health problem, both nationwide and in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. As a part of these efforts, Emergency Department (ED) outpatient prescriptions have been identified as a potential area for improvement. The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA), in conjunction with other stakeholders, developed a set of recommendations to address opioid management and prescribing within the ED setting.
This study is timed to coincide with the rollout by UMassMemorial Health Care of a system-wide opioid prescribing practice guideline/policy which mirrors the Massachusetts Hospital Association's guideline. This rollout provides a unique opportunity for a natural experiment related to provider prescribing practices.
This is a quality improvement project with two primary objectives:
- Improve understanding of physician practice patterns related to emergency department (ED) opioid prescribing
- Evaluate the effectiveness of providing individual clinician profile data in influencing behavior change among ED providers, as it relates to their opioid prescribing patterns
There are two corresponding specific aims:
- Quantitatively describe the current state of opioid prescribing by ED clinicians at four UMass Memorial EDs (using prescriptions generated within the ED electronic health information system between February 2014 and the study implementation date). Descriptive statistics being considered for feasibility of study include:
- Number of opioid prescriptions per hundred patients seen
- Percentage of total prescriptions written that are opioids
- Mean or median quantity of pills dispensed per opioid prescription
- Number of prescriptions for long-acting opioid formulations
- Evaluate the effect on prescribing practices of providing individual clinicians with their profile data to illustrate their personal opioid prescribing patterns, relative to the de-identified distribution for all other clinicians in the ED group
This project is timed to coincide with the separately planned implementation of a system-wide opioid prescribing guideline. The guideline implementation is an independent event, but we feel that it presents a unique opportunity for a simultaneous experimental intervention to assess whether providing clinicians with their individual data alters their prescribing practices beyond any effect achieved simply by being subject to the new guideline. Data collected from the electronic medical record and clinician self-reported data about their perceptions of their prescribing practices will be used to evaluate both the effect of the guideline implementation (i.e. comparison of prescribing patterns for all clinicians before and after guideline implementation) and the combined effect of guideline implementation plus individual profile intervention (i.e. comparisons across intervention versus control groups).
Undersøgelsestype
Undersøgelsestype
Tilmelding (Faktiske)
Tilmelding
Fase
Fase
- Ikke anvendelig
Kontakter og lokationer
Studiesteder
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Massachusetts
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Clinton, Massachusetts, Forenede Stater
- UMass Clinton Hospital
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Marlborough, Massachusetts, Forenede Stater
- UMass Memorial Marlborough Hospital
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Worcester, Massachusetts, Forenede Stater
- UMass Memorial Medical Center
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Deltagelseskriterier
Berettigelseskriterier
Berettigelseskriterier
Aldre berettiget til at studere
- Barn
- Voksen
- Ældre voksen
Tager imod sunde frivillige
Køn, der er berettiget til at studere
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
- 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
Exclusion Criteria:
- None
Studieplan
Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?
Design detaljer
- Primært formål: Sundhedstjenesteforskning
- Tildeling: Randomiseret
- Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
- Maskning: Ingen (Åben etiket)
Antal våben
Våben og indgreb
Deltagergruppe / ArmDeltagergruppe / Arm |
Intervention / BehandlingIntervention / Behandling |
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Ingen indgriben: Control
Providers who are subject only to the routine implementation of clinical practice guidelines without additional experimental intervention
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Eksperimentel: Intervention
Providers who are subject to routine clinical practice guideline implementation AND receive provider's own individual prescribing data profile intervention ("Individual prescribing data profile and self-assessment")
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Prior to receiving his or her individual data profile, each provider in the intervention group will be asked to identify his or her self-assessment of his or her own opioid prescribing practices.
Immediately after providing self-perception data, providers will be provided with their true profile data with a visual display of where they fall within the distribution of their peers.
All peer data are de-identified.
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Hvad måler undersøgelsen?
Primære resultatmål
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Tidsramme |
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Change in number of opioid prescriptions per hundred patients seen
Tidsramme: Pre-intervention baseline compared to 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 months post-intervention
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Pre-intervention baseline compared to 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 months post-intervention
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Sekundære resultatmål
Sekundære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Tidsramme |
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Change in percentage of total prescriptions written that are opioids
Tidsramme: Pre-intervention baseline compared to 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 months post-intervention
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Pre-intervention baseline compared to 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 months post-intervention
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Change in median quantity of pills dispensed per opioid prescription
Tidsramme: Pre-intervention baseline compared to 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 months post-intervention
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Pre-intervention baseline compared to 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 months post-intervention
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Change in number of prescriptions for long-acting opioid formulations
Tidsramme: Pre-intervention baseline compared to 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 months post-intervention
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Pre-intervention baseline compared to 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 12 months post-intervention
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Andre resultatmål
Andre resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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Self-assessment of decile for number of opioid prescriptions per hundred patients seen
Tidsramme: Once, at time of enrollment
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The provider's self-assessment of their decile of number of opioid prescriptions per hundred patients seen, compared to their peers
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Once, at time of enrollment
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Self-assessment of decile for percentage of total prescriptions written that are opioids
Tidsramme: Once, at time of enrollment
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The provider's self-assessment of their decile of their percentage of total prescriptions written that are opioids, compared to their peers
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Once, at time of enrollment
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Self-assessment of decile for median quantity of pills dispensed per opioid prescription
Tidsramme: Once, at time of enrollment
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The provider's self-assessment of their decile of their median quantity of pills dispensed per opioid prescription, compared to their peers
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Once, at time of enrollment
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Self-assessment of decile for number of prescriptions for long-acting opioid formulations
Tidsramme: Once, at time of enrollment
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The provider's self-assessment of their decile of their number of prescriptions for long-acting opioid formulations, compared to their peers
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Once, at time of enrollment
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Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere
Sponsor
Sponsor
Samarbejdspartnere
Samarbejdspartnere
Efterforskere
Efterforskere
- Ledende efterforsker: Sean Michael, MD, UMass Memorial Health Care
Datoer for undersøgelser
Studer store datoer
Studiestart (Faktiske)
Studiestart
Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)
Primær færdiggørelse
Studieafslutning (Faktiske)
Studieafslutning
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først indsendt
Først indsendt
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
Først opslået (Skøn)
Først opslået
Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler
Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)
Sidste opdatering sendt
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
Sidst verificeret
Sidst verificeret
Mere information
Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse
Nøgleord
Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
- H00009241
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