Learning about fatal opioid overdoses changes prescribing behavior

August 28, 2018

Learning about fatal opioid overdoses changes prescribing behavior

At a Glance

  • Notifying clinicians that one of their patients died of an opioid overdose reduced the number and doses of opioid medications prescribed in the following months.
  • The approach decreased opioid prescribing while still allowing clinicians to take individual pain-management needs into account.