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Aberrant Drug‐Related Behaviors
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208944/No data is associated with this publication.
Abstract
Background
Due to rising rates of opioid addiction and overdose among individuals on chronic opioid therapy, aberrant drug-related behaviors (ADRBs) are an important and challenging issue. Our objective was to qualitatively investigate the documentation of ADRBs in the medical record.Methods
Manually abstracted provider notes from an HIV primary care clinic were analyzed using content analysis methods.Results
Categories of ADRBs identified included patients requesting opioids, obtaining nonprescribed opioids, and becoming emotional about opioids. We also identified several types of provider language used when documenting ADRBs, including purely descriptive language and emotional language such as labeling, frustration, and concern, and responses such as setting conditions for opioid prescription and action-oriented language.Conclusions
The impact of including emotional language in the medical record is unknown. Development of instruments that can be used to facilitate ADRB documentation, as well as evidence-based approaches to addressing ADRBs, is needed.Many UC-authored scholarly publications are freely available on this site because of the UC's open access policies. Let us know how this access is important for you.