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The Pew Charitable Trusts has released their December 2016 report, "Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Evidence-based practices to optimize prescriber use". The report describes eight evidence-based practices aimed at increasing prescriber utilization of PDMPs.
From the overview:
"Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are state-based electronic databases that contain information on controlled substance prescriptions dispensed by pharmacies and prescribers. These programs can help reduce the misuse and “diversion”—the redirection of drugs from legal, medically authorized uses to illegal uses—of controlled substances, including prescription opioids.
"PDMPs allow prescribers and pharmacists, as well as other individuals and entities (such as researchers, health insurers, and medical licensing boards) that are authorized to access the data, to monitor controlled substance use by patients, the prescribing practices of medical practitioners, and population-level drug use trends."
