Key clinical point: Public policy coupled with EMR alerts appear effective in driving down opioid prescriptions.

Major finding: Morphine milligram equivalent and number of tablets per prescription filled saw statistically significant declines during the period observed.

Study details: New opioid prescriptions for acute pain in New Jersey and Pennsylvania issued in the Penn Medicine system were examined in the year before a New Jersey law limiting opioid prescriptions went into effect. It was compared with a period after an EMR intervention was implemented to remind physicians of the New Jersey law.

Disclosures: The researchers reported no disclosures.