Association of Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances With Opioid Prescribing Rates

Guidelines for prescribing of controlled substances.

This clinical policy deals with critical issues in prescribin of opioids for adult patients treated in the emergency department (ED). This guideline is the result of the efforts the American College of Emergency Physicians, in consultation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration. The critical questions addressed in this clinical policy are: (1) ...

Nurse practitioners and prescribing controlled substances.

Modeling of the Outpatient Prescribing Process in Iran: A Gateway toward Electronic Prescribing System

Implementation of electronic prescribing system can overcome many problems of the paper prescribing system, and provide numerous opportunities of more effective and advantageous prescribing. Successful implementation of such a system requires complete and deep understanding of work content, human force, and workflow of paper prescribing. The current study was designed in order to model the curr...

Early experience with electronic prescribing of controlled substances in a community setting.

BACKGROUND In 2010, the US Drug Enforcement Administration issued regulations allowing electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS), a practice previously prohibited. OBJECTIVE To carry out a survey of the experience of prescribers in the nation's first study of EPCS implementation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prescribers were surveyed in a community setting before and after implementat...

Modeling of the Outpatient Prescribing Process in Iran: A Gateway toward Electronic Prescribing System

Implementation of electronic prescribing system can overcome many problems of the paper prescribing system, and provide numerous opportunities of more effective and advantageous prescribing. Successful implementation of such a system requires complete and deep understanding of work content, human force, and workflow of paper prescribing. The current study was designed in order to model the curr...