Clinical Decision Support to Increase Emergency Department Naloxone Co-prescribing: Implementation Report (Preprint)
Stuart W Sommers,
Heather J Tolle,
Katy E Trinkley
et al.
Abstract:BACKGROUND
Co-prescribing naloxone with opioid analgesics is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention best practice to mitigate the risk of fatal opioid overdose (OD), yet co-prescription by emergency medicine clinicians is rare, occurring less than 5% of the time it is indicated. Clinical decision support (CDS) has been associated with increased naloxone prescribing; however, key CDS design characteristics and pragmatic outcome measures necessary to understand replicability and eff… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.