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Table 2 Baseline characteristics of the target patient population

From: Increasing system-wide implementation of opioid prescribing guidelines in primary care: findings from a non-randomized stepped-wedge quality improvement project

Characteristics

Intervention clinics at baseline

(N = 1431)

Comparison clinics at baseline

(N = 1717)

p value*

Women, % (SD)

57.7 (7.1)

60.7 (8.9)

0.400

Mean age, years, mean (SD)

53.6 (3.2)

53.8 (3.5)

0.864

Completed treatment agreement (past 12 months), % (SD)

24.8 (13.8)

29.2 (18.3)

0.531

Completed urine drug testing (past 12 months), % (SD)

24.7 (11.8)

31.3 (16.2)

0.285

Completed depression screening (past 12 months), % (SD)

8.1 (10.4)

1.1 (1.3)

0.019

Completed opioid misuse risk assessment, % (SD)

0.2 (0.4)

0.7 (1.8)

0.478

Documented PDMP Check (past 12 months), % (SD)

0.0 (0.1)

0.3 (1.2)

0.503

Co-prescribed benzodiazepines in at least 1 out of 3 past months, % (SD)

19.9 (4.3)

24.7 (7.4)

0.089

Percentage of the adult clinic population, % (SD)

2.0 (0.9)

2.1 (0.6)

0.906

MED (past 90 days), mg/day, mean (SD)

75.7 (29.7)

55.9 (19.4)

0.063

MED ≥ 90 mg/day (past 90 days), % (SD)

23.0 (8.8)

15.5 (7.3)

0.038

  1. Population of adult patients with opioid-treated chronic non-cancer pain in the 9 intervention and 17 comparison primary care clinics: characteristics at baseline (January 2016) based on the equally-weighted clinic averages
  2. MED Morphine-equivalent Dose, PDMP Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, SD standard deviation
  3. * p value was determined using the two-sample means test comparing clinic-level values for intervention versus comparison clinic groups