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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/research/health-it/opioids.html
September 01, 2022 - Increasing Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Abuse in Rural Primary Care Practices … An important aspect of the opioid epidemic is the lack of treatment options for millions of Americans … Medication-Assisted Treatment, or MAT, is evidence-based therapy for assisting people with opioid addiction … Rural Oklahoma includes some of the communities most affected by the opioid epidemic. Led by Dr. … Susan Heil, this project will build on efforts already underway in Oklahoma to address opioid abuse,
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www.ahrq.gov/news/six-building-blocks.html
November 01, 2021 - “Six Building Blocks” Toolkit Helps Clinics Improve Opioid Prescribing
Six Building Blocks … : A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care How-To-Implement Toolkit , an … AHRQ-funded resource, is available to help primary care teams reduce the number of patients on long-term opioid … Select to access Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/202304.html
October 01, 2023 - Online Training Enables Primary Care Providers in Rural New Mexico to Prescribe Medication for Opioid … have expanded on an AHRQ initiative to offer proven medication-assisted treatment to patients with opioid … staff all over the State are trained and supported to use medication in treating patients who have opioid … Primary care providers and clinic staff join the MOUD ECHO program to learn about opioid use disorder … “Before joining the MOUD ECHO training program, I was not treating patients with opioid disorders.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/improve/six-building-blocks-guide.html
December 01, 2021 - Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid Management in Primary Care … How-To-Implement Toolkit
The Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid … ) program provides a roadmap to improve care for patients with chronic pain who are using long-term opioid … background information, go to About AHRQ's Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid … program, AHRQ funded the development of a Six Building Blocks: A Team-Based Approach to Improving Opioid
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/smith-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Final Progress Report: Opioid Stewardship in Urology
Opioid Stewardship in Urology
American Urological … Opioids, opioid stewardship, opioid prescribing, urological surgery, pain management,
patient education … Patterns of initial opioid prescribing to opioid-naive patients.
Ann Surg 2018.
4. … Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network. Opioid facts brochure. … Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
Opioid Reclamation Efforts
MUSIC and Opioid Stewardship
Session 2:
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www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/adult-opioid-fills-by-race.html
November 01, 2023 - Adult Opioid Fills by Race
Adult Opioid Fills by Race (PDF, 530 KB)
Source: AHRQ, Medical
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www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/opioid-report-2014.html
April 01, 2018 - Burden on Hospital Care: A State-by-State Comparison (PDF, 344 KB)
Source: Statistical Brief #219, Opioid-Related
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www.ahrq.gov/opioids/health-systems-research.html
July 01, 2021 - Primary Care Practices
AHRQ awarded funds to five Primary Care Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid … use, misuse, and opioid use disorder (OUD) in older adults in primary care settings. … Characterizing Opioid-Related Adverse Events in Older Adults After Hospital Discharge. … Preventing opioid overdose deaths by empowering pharmacists to dispense naloxone. … Prescription Opioid Use Trajectories and Risk Factors Associated with Opioid-Related Hospitalizations
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www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/opioid-men-women-2014.html
April 01, 2018 - Women Have Higher Rates of Opioid-related Hospitalizations in Most States
[D] Text Description … Women Have Higher Rates of Opioid-related Hospitalizations in Most States (PDF, 414 KB)
Source: … Utilization Project (HCUP), HCUP Fast Stats , and HCUP Statistical Brief: " Patient Characteristics of Opioid-Related
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/seniors-struggles-with-opioids.html
September 01, 2018 - New AHRQ Reports Highlight Seniors’ Struggles with Opioids
Updated statistics quantify opioid … Nearly 10 million filled at least one opioid prescription in those years. … “The statistics in these reports provide important new insights into the opioid crisis and its impact … AHRQ’s new report on hospital use for opioid use disorder and opioid-related adverse events indicated … that opioid-related hospitalizations increased more than 50 percent and opioid-related emergency department
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/202105.html
November 01, 2021 - Primary Care Providers in Pennsylvania Use Medication for Successful Treatment of Opioid Use Disorders … 2021
The Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) used an AHRQ initiative to expand treatment for opioid … primary care physicians are now using medication-assisted treatment to care for their patients with opioid … LVHN used AHRQ resources to integrate treatment for opioid use disorder into primary care practice. … In one visit, a patient can get his diabetes and blood pressure medications, plus his medication for opioid
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/wei-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - misuse,
opioid use disorder (OUD), and opioid overdose among older adults. … in opioid prescribing. … of the progression of opioid use to adverse
opioid outcomes.13-15 Understanding prescription opioid … and high-risk opioid use
--- including opioid duplications, chronic opioid use of ≥90 consecutive days … 305.52 (Opioid abuse – episodic)
304.00 (Opioid type dependence – unspecified)
304.01 (Opioid type dependence
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/opioid-5-point-strategy.html
February 01, 2018 - posts from AHRQ leaders
AHRQ Stands Ready To Assist Secretary Azar in the Fight Against Opioid … I had the pleasure of meeting with him last week, when he told me that defeating the opioid crisis is … For 2018, we plan to maintain our commitment not only with opioid-related research projects, but also … An AHRQ-funded grantee helped develop a new website, " Prevent & Protect " that assists opioid users, … Like Secretary Azar, AHRQ is fully committed to the national battle against opioid misuse.
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/battle-against-opioid-misuse.html
January 01, 2018 - AHRQ Views: Blog posts from AHRQ leaders
AHRQ Intensifies the Battle Against Opioid Misuse … helping researchers, policymakers, clinicians, and patients better understand and battle against the opioid … First, we conducted data analyses to better understand the opioid epidemic, particularly its impact on … Providing Data Insights Into Opioid Prescription Costs and Hospitalizations
AHRQ provides researchers … For those of us who are visual learners, AHRQ has created an online map that depicts opioid-related
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/opioid-related_hospitalizations_2016.pdf
January 01, 2016 - Opioid-related hospitalizations of pregnant women, 2016
Percentage of opioid-related hospitalizations … 8 %
HISPANICS 9 %
Source: AHRQ, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #247:
Opioid-Related
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/parchman-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Safe Opioid Prescribing
Principal Investigator: Michael L. … Opioid prescribing data were
extracted from electronic health records. … Team-based clinic redesign of opioid medication manager in primary
care: Effect on opioid prescribing … The impact of opioid risk reduction initiatives on high-dose
opioid prescribing for patients on chronic … opioid therapy.
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www.ahrq.gov/opioids/whats-new/newsroom.html
December 01, 2022 - Newsroom
AHRQ's blog posts, infographics, and announcements on its latest efforts to help end the opioid … Infographics
Opioid-related Hospitalizations in 2016 Involving Women Who Were Pregnant or Giving Birth … , 2015-2016 PDF (6.8 MB)
Opioids' Impact on Seniors PDF (1.1 MB)
Women Have Higher Rates of Opioid-Related … Hospitalizations in Most States PDF (414 KB)
Rates of Opioid-Related Hospital Stays: How States … Compared in 2014 PDF (336 KB)
Opioid Overuse on the Rise: More Widespread Across the United States
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www.ahrq.gov/opioids/whats-new/index.html
November 01, 2023 - November 2023
Prescription opioid use continues to decline
AHRQ has released two opioid-related MEPS … first brief finds that 6.4 percent of adults aged 18-64, on average, filled at least one outpatient opioid … brief finds that 12.8 percent of adults aged 65 and older, on average, filled at least one outpatient opioid … study found that older Black and Hispanic patients with advanced cancer are less likely to receive opioid … medications, and that these inequities are not mediated by socioeconomic variables. " Disparities in Opioid
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/SyH-DR-stat-brief-2-postpartum-opioid-rx.pdf
March 01, 2024 - * The opioid prescription fill rate refers to the percentage of women who filled an opioid prescription … Delivery type,
opioid prescribing, and the risk of persistent opioid use after delivery. … Findings
Opioid Prescription Fill Rate
Figures 1-3 display the opioid prescription fill rate within … State Variation in Opioid Prescription Fills After Childbirth 7
Count of Opioid Prescription Fills … Prescription Fill Rate
Count of Opioid Prescription Fills
Data Source
Definitions
Opioid Prescription
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/robinson-papp-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Centers for Disease Control Opioid Prescribing Guideline (CDCOPG) enhanced scrutiny on opioid
prescribing … The current U.S. opioid epidemic has greatly increased scrutiny on opioid prescribing practices, however … the
link between opioid prescribing for CP patients and opioid morbidity and mortality is complex and … Intervention
The TOWER intervention is comprised of: an opioid management app (OM-App), opioid management … (e.g.,
availability of/insurance coverage for non-opioid treatments) and more general areas (e.g., opioid