Impact of unsolicited reporting notifications on providers' prescribing behavior: An experimental study on Maryland PDMP data.

Background: Unsolicited Reporting Notifications(URNs) have been a component of Maryland's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) since 2016. We evaluated the effect of URNs on providers' prescription behaviors.

Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study of providers who were issued at least one URN from January 2018 to April 2021.

Unsolicited reporting notifications (URNs) through Maryland's prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP): Characteristics of providers.

Objectives: Unsolicited reporting is the activity of analyzing Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) data and then sending unsolicited reporting notifications (URNs) to prescribers to notify them of their outlier prescribing behavior. We aimed to describe information about prescribers who were issued URNs.

Methods: A retrospective study of Maryland's PDMP data from Jan.

Who is in Your Waiting Room? Health Care Professionals as Culturally Responsive and Trauma-Informed First Responders to Human Trafficking.

Evidence-based practice standards are not yet well defined for assisting potential victims of human trafficking. Nonetheless, health care professionals are learning to be first responders in identifying, treating, and referring potential victims. As more public and private sector resources are used to train health care professionals about human trafficking, more evaluation and research are needed to develop an effective standard of care.