Evaluating and Implementing the Six Building Blocks Team Approach to Improve Opioid Management in Primary Care

The project “Evaluating and Implementing the Six Building Blocks Team Approach to Improve Opioid Management in Primary Care” fully supports AHRQ’s mission. The ultimate aim of this project is to further validate and expand the Six Building Blocks to Safer Opioid Management (6BBs) intervention and its associated resources and guidance to support primary care providers in safer opioid prescribing. Opioid overdose deaths have increased dramatically since 1999, and despite recent decreases in the national opioid prescribing rate, prescribing rates remain high in many U.S. counties. Primary care providers (PCPs) are responsible for about half of all dispensed opioid pain relievers. To address the emerging opioid epidemic, the Six Building Blocks to Safer Opioid Management (6BBs) Toolkit has been developed to support primary care providers in safer opioid prescribing, largely concordant with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. The 6BBs is a structured, systems-based approach for improving management of patients on long-term opioid therapy that targets six work areas a primary care practice needs to redesign in order to improve their clinic’s management of patients on long-term opioid therapy. Building upon previous work supported by AHRQ to address the opioid epidemic, this research has the following goals: 1. To improve the guidance for the 6BBs Toolkit, 2. To further implement the 6BBs in primary care practices, and 3. To understand the facilitators and barriers to implementing the Six Building Blocks to Safer Opioid Management.

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Attachment A -- Clinical Staff Survey

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