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Pragmatic Emergency Department Intervention Reducing Default Quantity of Opioid Tablets Prescribed.

Drake Gotham JohnsonAlice Y LuGeorgia A KirnKai TrepkaYesenia Ayana DayStephen C YangJuan Carlos C MontoyMarianne A Juarez
Published in: The western journal of emergency medicine (2024)
Decreasing EHR defaults is a robust, simple tool for decreasing opioid prescriptions, with potential for implementation in the 42% of EDs nationwide that have defaults exceeding the recommended 12-tablet supply. Considering significant inter-clinician variability, future interventions to decrease opioid prescriptions should examine the effects of combining EHR default changes with targeted interventions for clinician groups or individual clinicians.
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