Opioid Use Disorder: Decision Support For Healthcare Professionals

Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) is defined as deviating from the physician's prescription of a specific opioid. The OUD patients will require expensive inpatient treatment followed by a long-term outpatient treatment. We present a decision support system for opioid prescriptions, inpatient treatment (detoxification), and outpatient treatment by healthcare professionals. We analyzed the impact of inaccuracy in PDMP, decision scenarios, and effectiveness of decisions in outpatient scenarios on the opioid resource requirements. The proposed DSS will lead to better decision making using both the risk score and patient's condition.