Laura-Mae Baldwin, Brenda Mollis, Elizabeth Witwer, Jacqueline R Halladay, Tom Ludden, Nancy Elder, Hazel Tapp, Katrina E Donahue, Deborah Johnson, Kathleen Mottus, Ardis L Olson, Elizabeth Needham Waddell, Rowena J Dolor
BACKGROUND: The National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN) called for its national nodes to promote the translation of evidence-based interventions from substance use disorder (SUD) research into clinical practices. This collaborative demonstration project engaged CTN-affiliated practice-based research networks (PBRNs) in research that describes aspects of opioid prescribing in primary care. METHODS: Six PBRNs queried electronic health records from a convenience sample of 134 practices (84 participants) to identify the percent of adult patients with an office visit who were prescribed an opioid medication from October 1, 2015, to September 30, 2016, and, of those, the percent also prescribed a sedative in that year...
March 2020: Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment