Maine Medical Center's 2021 Annual Meeting Fellow Lightning Round Presentation
During the June 2021 Annual Meeting’s Fellows Lightning Round session, Marc Kimball, MD presented “Naloxone Co-Prescribing Across a Large Health System.” Dr. Kimball is a 2021 graduate of the addiction medicine fellowship program jointly run by Maine Medical Center and the US Veterans Affairs Health System.
Dr. Kimball’s presentation looked at the co-prescribing of naloxone across MaineHealth’s different sites and found that only about 6% of eligible patients had naloxone on their medication list. Using this information, the Naloxone Committee developed initiatives to help increase the number of patients being co-prescribed naloxone. Some of these initiatives included providing on-site naloxone training, developing online educational modules, and implementing a Best Practice Advisory (BPA).
The results showed that, because of the initiatives, the percentage of patients being co-prescribed naloxone increased by 23% overall. The largest uptake was related to the BPA implementation (12%), while the second-largest uptake was attributed to the development of online modules/guidelines (7%).