Randomized program evaluation of the Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM): A research and clinical operations partnership to examine effectiveness

References

• Kolodny A, Courtwright DT, Hwang CS, et al. The prescription opioid and heroin crisis: a public health approach to an epidemic of addiction. Annu Rev Public Health 2015;36:559–574. doi:10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-122957
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hedegaard H, Warner M, Miniño AM. Drug overdose deaths in the United States, 1999–2016. NCHS data brief, no 294. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2017. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db294.pdf. Accessed September 18, 2018
   Google Scholar
• Guy GP Jr., Zhang K, Bohm MK, et al. Vital signs: changes in opioid prescribing in the United States, 2006–2015. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2017;66:697–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6626a4. Accessed August 1, 2017
   Google Scholar
• Lin LA, Bohnert ASB, Kerns RD, et al. Impact of the opioid safety initiative on opioid-related prescribing in veterans. PAIN 2017;158:833–839. doi:10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000837
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Daubresse M, Chang H-Y, Yu Y, et al. Ambulatory diagnosis and treatment of nonmalignant pain in the United States, 2000–2010. Med Care. 2013;51:870–878. doi:10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182a95d86
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Becker WC, Fiellin DA, Gallagher RM, et al. The association between chronic pain and prescription drug abuse in veterans. Pain Med. 2009;10:531–536. doi:10.1111/j.1526-4637.2009.00584.x
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bohnert AS, Ilgen MA, Trafton JA, et al. Trends and regional variation in opioid overdose mortality among Veterans Health Administration patients, fiscal year 2001 to 2009. Clin J Pain 2014;30:605–612.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gellad WF, Good CB, Shulkin DJ. Addressing the opioid epidemic in the United States: lessons from the department of veterans affairs. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177:611–612.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baser O, Xie L, Mardekian J, et al. Prevalence of diagnosed opioid abuse and its economic burden in the veterans health administration. Pain Pract. 2013;14:437–445. doi:10.1111/papr.12097
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sharfstein JM. The opioid crisis from research to practice. Milbank Q. 2017;95:24–27.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Volkow ND, Collins FS. The role of science in addressing the opioid crisis. N Engl J Med. 2017;377:391–394.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Oliva EM, Bowe T, Tavakoli S, et al. Development and applications of the Veterans Health Administration’s Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) to improve opioid safety and prevent overdose and suicide. Psychol Serv. 2017;14(1):34–49. doi:10.1037/ser0000099
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Atkins D, Kilbourne AM, Shulkin D. Moving from discovery to System-Wide change: the role of research in a learning health care system: Experience from three decades of health systems research in the veterans health administration. Annu Rev Public Health. 2017;38(1):467–487.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• National Academy of Medicine. Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. 2012. http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2012/Best-Care-at-Lower-Cost-The-Path-to-Continuously-Learning-Health-Care-in-America.aspx.
   Google Scholar
• Etheredge LM. A Rapid-Learning health system. Health Aff (Millwood). 2007;26:w107–w118. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.26.2.w107
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frakt AB, Prentice JC, Pizer SD, et al. Overcoming challenges to evidence-based policy development in a large, integrated delivery system. Health Serv Res 2018:53:4789–4807. doi:10.1111/1475-6773.12986
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Berwick DM, Nolan TW, Whittington J. The triple aim: care, health, and cost. Health Aff (Millwood). 2008;27:759–769. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.27.3.759
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• U.S. Government Accountability Office. Veterans Affairs Health Care: Additon to GAO’s High Risk List and Actions Needed for Removal (GAO-15-580T). 2015. http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/669927.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Frakt AB. Developing Evidence-Based policy to address the opioid epidemic. AcademyHealth, Washington, D.C.; 2017. https://academyhealth.confex.com/academyhealth/2017nhpc/mediafile/Presentation/Session6997/frakt-PEPReC%20and%20STORM%20v3.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Sacarny A, Yokum D, Finkelstein A, Agrawal S. Medicare letters to curb overprescribing of controlled substances had no detectable effect on providers. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016;35:471–479. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2015.1025
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hunt P, Parast L, Weinberger G. Can an informative letter reduce gun crime and be Cost-Effective? A study of los angeles. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, RR-1934-NIJ, 2017; https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1934.html.
   Google Scholar
• Minegishi T, Garrido MM, Pizer SD, Frakt AB. Effectiveness of policy and risk targeting for opioid-related risk mitigation: a randomised programme evaluation with stepped-wedge design. BMJ Open 2018;8:e0200971–e0200976.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Waltz TJ, Powell BJ, Matthieu MM, et al. Use of concept mapping to characterize relationships among implementation strategies and assess their feasibility and importance: results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) study. Implement Sci 2015;10:109. doi:10.1186/s13012-015-0295-0
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Powell BJ, Waltz TJ, Chinman MJ, et al. A refined compilation of implementation strategies: results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) project. Implement Sci 2015;10:21. doi:10.1186/s13012-015-0209-1
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Damschroder LJ, Aron DC, Keith RE, et al. Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science. Implement Sci 2009;4:50. doi:10.1186/1748-5908-4-50
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar