Opioid use for managing pain and non-medical purposes has reached epidemic proportions and has created a national crisis that causes staggering mortality, costs, and shattered lives. Patients and care teams could better address these challenges through timely, efficient access to evidence-informed information and tools that support safe and effective pain management, opioid use, and opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. Patient-centered clinical decision support (PCCDS) refers to strategies and interventions that deliver such support in ways that enhance patient activation, education and engagement, and collaborative decisions and actions between patients and their care teams. The Patient-Centered CDS Learning Network (Learning Network) is an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-supported initiative that focused its efforts in 2018 on developing this opioid action plan (OAP) to articulate and begin advancing progress toward a shared vision for applying PCCDS more broadly and effectively to address the opioid misuse crisis.

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