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Implementing Clinical Decision Support Aimed At Reducing Co-Prescribing Of Opioids And Benzodiazepines At Adventist Healthcare Maryland, Monica Coley
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Clinical Decision Support (CDS) leverages computerized toolsets to provide condition specific guidance that aids providers in clinical decision making processes (AHRQ, 2019; AMIA, n.d.; ONC, 2018). Research has shown that applying CDS, interruptive within the electronic health record (EHR) prescribing workflow, can assist providers with avoiding unsafe medication prescribing, such as 1) multiple opioids and 2) opioid-benzodiazepine combinations (Malte et al., 2018; Smith et al., 2019, Price-Haywood et al., 2020; Nelson et al., 2022). In an effort to decrease the co-prescribing rate for 1) multiple opioids and 2) opioid-benzodiazepine combinations, Adventist HealthCare Maryland (AHC) launched a performance improvement project in …