Association of Primary Care Risk Mitigation Visits and Nonelective Emergency Department Visits in Patients Using Long-term Opioid Therapy
Objective: To determine risk factors for nonelective emergency department visits (NEDVs) and whether primary care visits incorporating risk mitigation tools prevented NEDVs among patients using long-term opioid therapy (LOT). Patients and Methods: We retrospectively searched the electronic health re...
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| author | Nancy V. Koch, MD Richard J. Butterfield, III, MA |
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| description | Objective: To determine risk factors for nonelective emergency department visits (NEDVs) and whether primary care visits incorporating risk mitigation tools prevented NEDVs among patients using long-term opioid therapy (LOT). Patients and Methods: We retrospectively searched the electronic health records at Mayo Clinic primary care outpatient practices in Arizona and Florida in all of 2018 and 2019 for the records of individual adult patients using LOT. Patient and clinician demographic characteristics and patient risk factors were compared between patients with and without risk mitigation visits. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression was used to determine risk factors for NEDVs. Results: Among 457 patients using LOT identified during the study period, most were women (n=266, 58.2%), and the median age was 69 years. Long-term opioid therapy risk mitigation visits were performed equally by family medicine and internal medicine clinicians and by a significantly higher proportion of Florida clinicians than Arizona clinicians (87.0% vs 70.5%; P<.001). Older age, falls, and mental health care utilization all increased the risk of NEDVs. Risk mitigation visits were protective against NEDVs (odds ratio, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.35-0.89; P=.01) after adjustment for older age, falls, and mental health care utilization. Conclusion: Risk mitigation visits are effective in preventing NEDVs, and all patients using LOT should have such visits when possible. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7475541b136f40af8a0a1ba8dec0a16b2023-10-21T04:23:05ZengElsevierMayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes2542-45482023-10-0175366372Association of Primary Care Risk Mitigation Visits and Nonelective Emergency Department Visits in Patients Using Long-term Opioid TherapyNancy V. Koch, MD0Richard J. Butterfield, III, MA1Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Correspondence: Address to Nancy V. Koch, MD, Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic 13400 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85259.Division of Clinical Trials and Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZObjective: To determine risk factors for nonelective emergency department visits (NEDVs) and whether primary care visits incorporating risk mitigation tools prevented NEDVs among patients using long-term opioid therapy (LOT). Patients and Methods: We retrospectively searched the electronic health records at Mayo Clinic primary care outpatient practices in Arizona and Florida in all of 2018 and 2019 for the records of individual adult patients using LOT. Patient and clinician demographic characteristics and patient risk factors were compared between patients with and without risk mitigation visits. Univariate and multivariable logistic regression was used to determine risk factors for NEDVs. Results: Among 457 patients using LOT identified during the study period, most were women (n=266, 58.2%), and the median age was 69 years. Long-term opioid therapy risk mitigation visits were performed equally by family medicine and internal medicine clinicians and by a significantly higher proportion of Florida clinicians than Arizona clinicians (87.0% vs 70.5%; P<.001). Older age, falls, and mental health care utilization all increased the risk of NEDVs. Risk mitigation visits were protective against NEDVs (odds ratio, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.35-0.89; P=.01) after adjustment for older age, falls, and mental health care utilization. Conclusion: Risk mitigation visits are effective in preventing NEDVs, and all patients using LOT should have such visits when possible.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542454823000474 |
| spellingShingle | Nancy V. Koch, MD Richard J. Butterfield, III, MA Association of Primary Care Risk Mitigation Visits and Nonelective Emergency Department Visits in Patients Using Long-term Opioid Therapy Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes |
| title | Association of Primary Care Risk Mitigation Visits and Nonelective Emergency Department Visits in Patients Using Long-term Opioid Therapy |
| title_full | Association of Primary Care Risk Mitigation Visits and Nonelective Emergency Department Visits in Patients Using Long-term Opioid Therapy |
| title_fullStr | Association of Primary Care Risk Mitigation Visits and Nonelective Emergency Department Visits in Patients Using Long-term Opioid Therapy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Association of Primary Care Risk Mitigation Visits and Nonelective Emergency Department Visits in Patients Using Long-term Opioid Therapy |
| title_short | Association of Primary Care Risk Mitigation Visits and Nonelective Emergency Department Visits in Patients Using Long-term Opioid Therapy |
| title_sort | association of primary care risk mitigation visits and nonelective emergency department visits in patients using long term opioid therapy |
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