Conjoint Committee Recommendations and Implications for Documentation

The table below considers the implications of data collection recommendations from the Conjoint Committee issued in October. This analysis refers to the April 2017 (1.7) draft of the specifications and the April 2017 draft of the Implementation Guidelines.

#	Recommendation	Specifications	MEMS Vocabularies	MEMS Definitions	Implementation Guidelines
1	What is your profession? i. Physician ii. Advanced Practice Nurse/Nurse Practitioner iii. Physician assistant iv. Dentist v. Podiatrist vi. Registered Nurse vii. Pharmacist viii. Optometrist ix. Psychologist x. Other	Pg 82	Revise list of professions (see vocabularies)		See #2.
2	Are you able to prescribe Schedule 2 and/or 3 Controlled Substances either through individual or institution DEA registration? i. Yes/no			Change SCHEDULE_2_OR_3_REGISTERED_CLINICIAN term and definition to schedule_2_or_3_clinician	The current draft guidelines capture the following breakdowns of Prescribers sucessfully completing: Prescribers successfully completing by profession Prescribers successfully completing by practice type Prescribers successfully completing by Years in Practice Prescribers successfully completing by Primary Practice Region Under the recommended changes, this could change as follows. Schedule 2 or 3 clinicians completing by profession Schedule 2 or 3 clinicians completing by practice/specialty area. Schedule 2 or 3 clinicians completing by Years in Practice Schedule 2 or 3 clinicians completing by Primary Practice Region In addition, instead of capturing Prescribers we could capture Schedule 2 or 3 clinicans total.
3	Which best describes your practice/specialty area? i. Addiction Medicine ii. Anesthesiology iii. Cardiology iv. Critical Care Medicine v. Emergency Medicine vi. Family Medicine vii. Geriatric Medicine viii. Hematology/Oncology ix. Hospice and Palliative Care x. Internal Medicine xi. Obstetrics/Gynecology xii. Pain Medicine xiii. Pediatrics xiv. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation xv. Surgery xvi. Dentistry xvii. Optometry xviii. Other	Pg 82	Revise list of specialties (see vocabularies )		See #2.
4	Primary geographic location of practice i. List of States ii. Other/outside of the US				See #2.
5	Length of time the learner has been in practice i. 0-5 years ii. 6-10 years iii. 11-15 years iv. 16-20 v. 21+ years	No change needed (see pg 83)			See #2.
6	The current question that asks if the prescriber has prescribed in the last 12 months should be eliminated.			Would deprecate FDA ER/LA OPIOID REMS DEFINED: ER/LA_OPIOID_PRESCRIBER definition and related definitions	Would eliminate the descriptions of how to represent the number of: Prescribers Prescribers successfully completing Prescribers successfully completing by profession Prescribers sucessfully completing by practice type. Prescribers successfully completing by Years in Practice Prescribers successfully completing by Primary Practice Region See #2.
7	The current question about specialty (primary, pain, non-pain) should be replaced by the practice area question.	See #1	See #1		See #2.

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