Article Excerpt: Electronic medication alerts can lower co-prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines in high-risk patients, suggest the results of a VA Puget Sound Health Care System quality-improvement project. Investigators used VA’s electronic medical record system to automatically alert care providers prescribing either opioids or benzodiazepine when patients with high-risk conditions had prescriptions for the other drug class. Co-prescribing of the two medications dropped for high-risk patients with substance use disorder, sleep apnea, and suicide risk after the system was implemented.
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Article Source: Technology Networks