AI in Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Quiz

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1. In a NarxCare narcotic score of 452, what does the final digit 2 represent?
   • The patient's number of overdoses
   • The number of active narcotic prescriptions
   • The number of states searched
   • The patient's risk tier out of 10
2. Why can a dog's benzodiazepine prescription raise its owner's sedative score?
   • Veterinary prescriptions can be recorded under the owner's name in the PDMP
   • Veterinarians report directly to NarxCare as high-risk prescribers
   • Pet medications are counted at double weight
   • The owner's pharmacy is penalized for it
3. Under federal rules, what 'corresponding responsibility' do pharmacists share with prescribers?
   • Setting the patient's Narx score
   • Making sure a controlled-substance prescription serves a legitimate medical purpose
   • Reporting every fill to the CDC
   • Diagnosing opioid use disorder
4. What does the CDC's 2022 opioid guideline warn clinicians against, as noted in the guide?
   • Checking the PDMP at all
   • Offering naloxone
   • Dismissing patients based on PDMP information
   • Prescribing to cancer patients
5. A patient with cancer sees an oncologist, a surgeon and a pain specialist. Why might their score be high even with appropriate care?
   • Cancer diagnoses are added to the score directly
   • The model counts many prescribers and pharmacies whatever the reason
   • Oncologists are flagged prescribers
   • Scores rise automatically after age 60
6. What error in record linkage can distort a PDMP score before any modeling happens?
   • Encrypting records twice
   • Merging two different people into one record, or splitting one person's history
   • Rounding doses to whole numbers
   • Storing records in more than one state
7. Which statement matches the guide's view of what a high Narx score means?
   • It confirms the patient is diverting drugs
   • It proves addiction
   • It reflects a prescription pattern associated with risk, not a diagnosis
   • It means the prescriber is under investigation
8. Faced with a high score, what practical step does the guide recommend a pharmacist take before acting?
   • Refuse the prescription immediately
   • Review the underlying prescription records behind the score
   • Call the police
   • Ask the patient to take a drug test at the counter