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.