As a nationally recognized model, overdose fatality review (OFR) is being used by a growing number of communities to strengthen their community-based responses to the opioid overdose epidemic. The purpose of an OFR is to effectively identify system gaps and innovative community-specific overdose prevention and intervention strategies. In practice, OFRs involve a series of confidential individual death reviews by a multidisciplinary team. A death review examines a decedent’s life to facilitate a deeper understanding of the missed opportunities for prevention and intervention that may have prevented an overdose. By conducting a series of OFRs, jurisdictions begin to see patterns of need and opportunity, not only within specific agencies but across systems. This webinar highlighted one state’s OFRs experience partnering with their PDMP program. Participants learned about OFRs, benefits of OFR and PDMP partnerships, challenges of participating and sharing data and how they may be overcome, and a discussion of how PDMP programs may build a relationship with their local OFRs.
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