Title: Features and overview

Context:
There are electronic tools to facilitate clinical risk assessment and adherence to risk mitigation. Two tools  currently used in the VA are the Opioid Therapy Risk Report (OTRR) and the Stratification Tool for  Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM). The OTRR allows VA providers to review clinical data related to opioid  pain treatment within the electronic medical record (EMR), providing an efficient way of monitoring the  data. The STORM tool incorporates co-occurring medical and mental health conditions, SUD, opioid dose,  co-prescribed sedatives, and information about prior adverse events and generates estimates of patients’  risk or hypothetical risk when considering initiation of opioid therapy. It quantifies risk for poisoning or  suicide-related events and for drug-related events, accidents, falls, and drug-induced conditions over a  three-year window. Further, it provides suggestions as to what alternative treatments have not been tried  and what risk mitigation strategies need to be applied. Evidence supporting their use is poor but they  facilitate providers’ determination of current, past and potential therapies and strategies.

Question: What does the OTRR do?

Answer: allows VA providers to review clinical data related to opioid  pain treatment within the electronic medical record (EMR), providing an efficient way of monitoring the  data