Monitoring Patterns of Prescribing to Identify Changes in Access to ER/LA Opioid Analgesics

ER/LA Opioid REMS Program Companies (RPC)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Opiate Addiction; Drug Abuse; Narcotic Abuse; Opioid Related Disorders

Treatments: Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT02920775

Assessment 8

Details and patient eligibility

About

Changes in prescribing will be compared in prescribers from specialties whose prescribing is hypothesized to be relatively unaffected by the REMS (such as oncologists and hospice providers) versus those for whom the REMS could have greater impact on prescribing (e.g., dentists). Trends and changes in monthly prescription volume and average monthly prescription volume will be evaluated by prescriber specialty.

Enrollment: 360,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Changes in number of prescriptions for prescriber types with less or more compelling reasons to prescriber ER/LA opioid analgesics

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

360,000 participants in 15 patient groups

Pain

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

PCP

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Dentist

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Surgery

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Emergency Medicine

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Oncology

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Anesthesiology

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Neurology

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Nurse Practitioners

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Pediatrics

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Physician Assistant

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

Rheumatology

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review

All Other Specialties

Treatment:

Other: Non-interventional study - retrospective database review