Physician Time Burden Associated with Querying Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
Author(s) -
Marcus A. Bachhuber,
Brendan Saloner,
Marc R. Larochelle,
Jessica S. Merlin,
Brandon C. Maughan,
Dan Polsky,
Naum Shaparin,
Sean M. Murphy
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pny053
Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , drug , medline , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , family medicine , pharmacology , political science , law
Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) enable prescribers to review patient prescription histories, and their use is mandatory in many states. We estimated the cost of physicians retrieving PDMP patient reports compared with a model where a delegate (i.e., administrative staff) retrieves reports.
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