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Prescription monitoring programs: do they work?

Author: 

Gilson, A.

Publication Date: 

2010

Publication: 
Medscape Today
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Tags: doctor shopping, false positives, journal articles, PMP impact, PMP operations, prescribing practices, pseudoaddiction, secure prescription forms, substitution effect

Analytic models to identify patients at risk for prescription opioid abuse

Author: 

White, Alan G., Birnbaum, H. G., Schiller, M., Tang, J., Katz, N. P.

Publication Date: 

2009

Publication: 
The American Journal of Managed Care; 15: 12 897-906
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Tags: algorithms, demographic characteristics, false positives, identifying diversion and misuse, journal articles, Maine, medical claims data, opioid abuse, PMP data, pseudoaddiction, risk factors, thresholds

Usefulness of prescription monitoring programs for surveillance: analysis of Schedule II opioid prescription data in Massachusetts, 1996–2006

Author: 

Katz, N., et al.

Publication Date: 

2010

Publication: 
Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety; 19:115–123.
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Tags: doctor shopping, epidemiology, false negatives, false positives, identifying diversion and misuse, journal articles, Massachusetts, opioid abuse, oxycodone, pain management, PMP data, prescribing patterns, surveillance, thresholds

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