Table 4.
Pain care treatment data from the EHR for patients with chronic pain cared for by the 25 providers present for intervention
| Chronic Pain Care Data Element | Baseline (March 2010–February 2011) |
Postintervention (March 2013–February 2015) |
P-values | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total patients | 3,330 | 4,385 | N/A | |
| Average number of visits (±SD) | 7.30±14.37 | 6.83±14.37 | 0.094 | |
| Pain scores | Pain >8, n (%) | 2,504 (75.2) | 3,245 (74.0) | 0.351* |
| Opioids | Any opioid prescribed, n (%) | 1,615 (48.5) | 1,943 (44.3) | 0.117 |
| Chronic opioid therapy, n (%) | 763 (22.9) | 921 (21.0) | 0.486 | |
| Behavioral health | Patients with a behavioral visit, n (%) | 809 (24.3) | 1,276 (29.1) | 0.009 |
| Pain referrals | Chiropractic, n (%) | 3 (0.1) | 48 (1.1) | 0.008 |
| Physical therapy, n (%) | 480 (14.4) | 750 (17.1) | 0.508 | |
| Neurologic or orthopedic surgery, n (%) | 663 (19.9) | 693 (15.8) | <0.001 | |
| Rheumatology, n (%) | 120 (3.6) | 136 (3.1) | 0.419 | |
Notes:
*
Stata’s “xtmixed” yielded P=0.052.
Abbreviations: EHR, electronic health record; N/A, not applicable; SD, standard deviation.