Affiliation:
1. Department of Public Health Sciences University of California, Davis Davis California USA
2. Violence Prevention Research Program, Department of Emergency Medicine University of California, Davis Sacramento California USA
3. Division of General Internal Medicine University of California, Davis Sacramento California USA
Abstract
AbstractBackgroundTo help prevent overdose deaths involving prescription drugs, accurate linkage of prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) records for individual patients is essential.ObjectivesTo compare the accuracy of the linkage program used by California's PDMP against various record linkage programs with respect to accuracy in deduplicating patient identities in the PDMP, with implications for identifying high‐risk opioid use and outlier behaviors.Research DesignWe evaluated California's program, Link Plus, LinkSolv, and The Link King on 557 861 PDMP identity records with addresses in two 3‐digit zip code areas for patients who filled a controlled substance prescription in 2013. Manual review was performed on a stratified sample of 720 paired records identified as matches by at least one program.MeasuresWe estimated sensitivity and positive predictive value, and computed PDMP patient alerts for the patient entities identified by each program.ResultsSensitivity was 95% for LinkSolv and The Link King, 84% for Link Plus, and 73% for California's program; positive predictive value was ≥93% for all programs. The number of patient entities prompting a PDMP alert was similar among the programs for all alerts except multiple provider episodes (obtaining prescriptions from ≥6 prescribers or ≥6 pharmacies in the last 6 months), which were 10.9%, 26.6%, and 16.9% greater using The Link King, Link Plus, and LinkSolv, respectively, compared to California's program.ConclusionsPDMPs should assess the accuracy of record linkage algorithms and the impacts of these algorithms on patient safety alerts and develop national best practices for PDMP record linkage.
Funder
Bureau of Justice Assistance
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Subject
Pharmacology (medical),Epidemiology
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