Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Opioid Overdoses
Castillo-Carniglia A, Ponicki W, Gaidus A, Gruenewald P, Marshall B, Fink D, Martins S, Rivera-Aguirre A, Wintemute G, Cerdá M. Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Opioid Overdoses. Epidemiology 2019, 30: 212-220. PMID: 30721165, PMCID: PMC6437666, DOI: 10.1097/ede.0000000000000950.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrescription drug monitoring programsOnline prescription drug monitoring programsDrug monitoring programsNoncancer pain conditionsPrescription opioid overdoseMedication accessPain conditionsOpioid overdoseRate of hospital dischargeCounty-level ratesPrescription opioidsHeroin overdoseCounty levelRates of hospitalizationOpioid-related hospitalizationsAssociated with lower ratesMedical providersReduce harmHospital dischargeCounty-levelHierarchical Poisson modelsPrescriptionOpioidPoisson modelHospital
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