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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| 17-05047 | Other Grant/Funding Number | NYS Health Foundation |
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| New York State Health Foundation | UNKNOWN |
| The Institute for Family Health | OTHER |
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Risk of long-term opioid dependence increases with initial opioid dose/duration, but despite recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-endorsed minimum doses for initial opioid prescription, primary care providers are likely to overprescribe. In this quality improvement project, primary care departments at Weill Cornell and the Institute for Family Health (federally qualified health center in New York City) will implement an unobtrusive "nudge" in their electronic prescribing software to promote the CDC-endorsed low doses for all opioids. In the evaluation, we will employ a quasi-experimental design with rigorous interrupted time series analysis methods to assess the effect of the "nudge" on prescribing rates. The analysis will be performed at the provider level, with deidentified physician data and a limited data set (fully deidentified except for date of prescription) of patient-level data.
The two participating institutions, WCMC (Weill Cornell Medical College) and IFH (Institute for Family Health), intend to redesign the e-prescribing interface to create a minor "nudge" to encourage prescribers to prescribe the minimum dose set by the 2016 CDC guideline for opioid-naive patients in 2018. The change to the e-prescribing system is that after a prescriber chooses the drug they wish to prescribe, the minimum recommended dosage from the CDC guidelines will be displayed. The prescriber can choose to change the dosage by overwriting in the field box. The changes to the prescriber system will be implemented at two Weill Cornell clinical organizations: Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates (WCIMA) and Weill Cornell Medical Associates (CMA), and at all locations at our collaborating institution IFH (Institute for Family Health). Weill Cornell and IFH will provide data for the analysis, which will be conducted by the co-investigators on this protocol. The project will assess data pre- and post- implementation to study prescribing patterns.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Default Prescribing Change | Experimental | In the e-prescribing system, the default opioid dosage/duration is changed to the minimum recommended dosage from the CDC guidelines for short acting opioids. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Default Prescribing Change | Other | In the e-prescribing system, the default opioid dosage/duration is changed to the minimum recommended dosage from the CDC guidelines for short acting opioids. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in the proportion of opioid prescriptions for opioid-naïve patients that comply with CDC recommendations before and after the intervention | Change in the proportion of opioid prescriptions for opioid-naïve patients that comply with CDC recommendations before and after the intervention | Two years prior to and six months after implementation |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change in the average days of supply of opioids for opioid naive patients | Change in the average days of supply of opioids for opioid naive patients | Two years prior to and six months after implementation |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Jessica S Ancker, PhD, MPH | Weill Medical College of Cornell University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| The Institute for Family Health | New York | New York | 10035 | United States | ||
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 26911828 | Background | Malhotra S, Cheriff AD, Gossey JT, Cole CL, Kaushal R, Ancker JS. Effects of an e-Prescribing interface redesign on rates of generic drug prescribing: exploiting default options. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2016 Sep;23(5):891-8. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv192. Epub 2016 Feb 17. |
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This data is protected by HIPAA and IRB/human subjects protections. In addition, the data is scheduled to be destroyed after publication of results.
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This is a interrupted time series study model with one study group.
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| New York |
| New York |
| 10065 |
| United States |
| ID | Term |
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| D009293 | Opioid-Related Disorders |
| D019966 | Substance-Related Disorders |
| ID | Term |
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| D000079524 | Narcotic-Related Disorders |
| D064419 | Chemically-Induced Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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