• J Emerg Med · Apr 2024

    Opioid Prescribing Rate for Nonoperative Distal Radius Fractures and Clinician Response to a Clinical Decision Support Alert.

    • Ben Averkamp, Katherine Li, Meghan K Wally, Tamar Roomian, Christopher Griggs, Michael Runyon, Joseph R Hsu, Rachel B Seymour, PRIMUM Group, Michael Beuhler, Michael J Bosse, Manuel Castro, Michael Gibbs, Steven Jarrett, Daniel Leas, Susan Odum, Ziqing Yu, James Rachal, Animita Saha, D Matthew Sullivan, and Brad Watling.
    • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Atrium Health Musculoskeletal Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina.
    • J Emerg Med. 2024 Apr 1; 66 (4): e413e420e413-e420.

    BackgroundOpioids are commonly prescribed for the management of acute orthopedic trauma pain, including nonoperative distal radius fractures.ObjectivesThis prospective study aimed to determine if a clinical decision support intervention influenced prescribing decisions for patients with known risk factors. We sought to quantify frequency of opioid prescriptions for acute nonoperative distal radius fractures treated.MethodsWe performed a prospective study at one large health care system. Utilizing umbrella code S52.5, we identified all distal radius fractures treated nonoperatively, and the encounters were merged with the Prescription Reporting with Immediate Medication Mapping (PRIMUM) database to identify encounters with opioid prescriptions and patients with risk factors for opioid use disorder. We used multivariable logistic regression to determine patient characteristics associated with the prescription of an opioid. Among encounters that triggered the PRIMUM alert, we calculated the percentage of encounters where the PRIMUM alert influenced the prescribing decision.ResultsOf 2984 encounters, 1244 (41.7%) included an opioid prescription. Age increment is a significant factor to more likely receive opioid prescriptions (p < 0.0001) after adjusting for other factors. Among encounters where the physician received an alert, those that triggered the alert for early refill were more likely to influence physicians' opioid prescribing when compared with other risk factors (p = 0.0088).ConclusionOver 90% of patients (106/118) continued to receive an opioid medication despite having a known risk factor for abuse. Additionally, we found older patients were more likely to be prescribed opioids for nonoperatively managed distal radius fractures.Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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