Opioid Prescribing Behaviors - Prescription Behavior Surveillance System, 11 States, 2010-2016.

Opioid Prescribing Behaviors - Prescription Behavior Surveillance System, 11 States, 2010-2016. MMWR Surveill Summ. 2020 Jan 31;69(1):1-14 Authors: Strickler GK, Kreiner PW, Halpin JF, Doyle E, Paulozzi LJ Abstract PROBLEM/CONDITION: In 2017, a total of 70,237 persons in the United States died from a drug overdose, and 67.8% of these deaths involved an opioid. Historically, the opioid overdose epidemic in the United States has been closely associated with a parallel increase in opioid prescribing and with widespread misuse of these medications. National and state policy makers have introduced multiple measures to attempt to assess and control the opioid overdose epidemic since 2010, including improvements in surveillance systems. PERIOD COVERED: 2010-2016 DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM: The Prescription Behavior Surveillance System (PBSS) was created in 2011. Its goal was to track rates of prescribing of controlled substances and possible misuse of such drugs using data from selected state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP). PBSS data measure prescribing behaviors for prescription opioids using multiple measures calculated from PDMP data including 1) opioid prescribing, 2) average daily opioid dosage, 3) proportion of patients with daily opioid dosages ≥90 morphine milligram equivalents, 4) overlapping opioid prescriptions, 5) overlapping opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions, and 6) multiple-provider episodes. For this ...
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