2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids Implementation Guide, published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 2022.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/cqframework/opioid-cds-r4/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions
Recommendations #12 (2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain):
Clinicians should offer or arrange treatment with evidence-based medications to treat patients with opioid use disorder. Detoxification on its own, without medications for opioid use disorder, is not recommended for opioid use disorder because of increased risks for resuming drug use, overdose, and overdose death
(recommendation category: A;
evidence type: 1).
Functional Description
- When
- Patient is 18 years or older
- Patient has a diagnosis of opioid use disorder in the past 90 days
- No active order for buprenorphine or methadone medication
- Then
- Offer evidence-based medications to treat patients with opioid use disorder:
- Document - Will order medication to treat opioid use disorder
- Refer - Will refer patient to SUD specialist
- Snooze - N/A see comment, snooze 3 months
The following table describes the flowchart decisions and sub-routines for the recommendation
Definition |
Answer to Proceed |
Details |
Data (Terminology) Requirement |
Profile |
Path |
Age ≥ 18? |
Yes |
Age greater than or equal to 18 years |
|
Patient
|
Patient.birthDate
|
Presence of diagnosis of opioid misuse disorders in past 90 days? |
Yes |
Look for an active condition of opioid misuse disorder |
Opioid misuse disorders |
Condition
|
Condition.category, Condition.code, Condition.clinicalStatus, and Condition.recordedDate
|
Active order for buprenorphine or methadone medications? |
No |
An active prescription (order) for buprenorphine or methadone medications |
Buprenorphine and methadone medications |
MedicationRequest
|
MedicationRequest.medication, MedicationRequest.category, MedicationRequest.status, and MedicationRequest.authoredOn
|
Effective Data Requirements
Rationale for Medication-Assisted Treatment
Definition |
Expression |
Data (Terminology) Requirement |
Presence of diagnosis of opioid misuse disorder |
Existing active diagnosis of opioid misuse disorder |
Opioid misuse disorders value set |
Positive result from opioid misuse disorder evaluation tool |
- Evidence of positive result from opioid misuse disorder evaluation tool
- Timing - within 90 days
|
- Value set for opioid misuse disorders evaluation tool(s) - LOINC pan
- Result options for such opioid misuse disorder evaluation tool(s) - perhaps LOINC normative responses that differentiate positive from negative results.
- Consider this element a FUTURE option
|
Not Receiving Evidence-Based Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder |
- Evidence of an ordered medication for opioid misuse disorder treatment in the last 90 days
- Status active or completed
|
Buprenorphine and methadone medications |
Content
The following artifacts formalize the description of the logic and behavior defined by this recommendation.
Example Data/Requests - patient-view hook
Description | CDS Hooks Request | Expected Response |
Patient is 18 or older. Patient has a diagnosis of opioid misuse disorder in past 90 days. This will trigger the message "Recommend opioid agonist or partial agonist treatment with methadone maintenance therapy or buprenorphine and/or behavioral therapy". |
Request JSON |
Response JSON |
Patient is 18 or older. Patient has a diagnosis of opioid misuse disorder and has been prescribed Buprenorphine 2 MG / Naloxone 0.5 MG Sublingual Film (1010600) in past 90 days. The patient will be excluded and no message will be triggered - an empty set of cards will be returned. |
Request JSON |
Response JSON |