Minnesota Office of Medical Cannabis Comprehensive Reports

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Some in depth reports published by the Minnesota DOH on its medical marijuana patients. These reports have been used when petitioning for new conditions.

https://www.health.state.mn.us/people/cannabis/about/omcreport.html

Annual Cohort Reports

Minnesota Medical Cannabis Program Annual Cohort Reporting System

• This collection of reports presents information regarding participants’ experience in the program, organized by annual cohorts of initial patient enrollments. The program became operational July 1, 2015, so the annual cohorts are patients who enrolled for the first time between July 1 of one year and June 30 of the subsequent year. The same analysis results are presented for each annual cohort and for the aggregate of all annual cohorts combined. Because some analyses require multiple months of observation time after a patient’s enrollment, results for a given annual cohort are not added to this reporting system until approximately 18 months after the end of the cohort year.

Link to Archived Reports

Condition-Specific Reports

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Patients in the Minnesota Medical Cannabis Program Report

• Comprehensive report on the experiences of the first five months of PTSD enrollees. Chapters include: Patient/Caregiver/Healthcare Practitioner descriptive information, Medical cannabis use patterns, Benefits, and Adverse side effects. Appendices include verbatim comments from patients and healthcare practitioners on benefits and adverse side effects.

Intractable Pain Patients in the Minnesota Medical Cannabis Program: Experience of Enrollees During the First Five Months

• Comprehensive report on the experiences of the first five months of intractable pain enrollees. Chapters include: Patient/Caregiver/Healthcare Practitioner descriptive information including patient's primary cause of intractable pain, Medical cannabis use patterns, Benefits including reduction of pain medication, and Adverse side effects. Appendices include verbatim comments from patients and healthcare practitioners on benefits, adverse side effects, and other clinical observations.

 

https://www.health.state.mn.us/people/cannabis/about/archivereport.html

Office of Medical Cannabis Archived Reports

Minnesota Medical Cannabis Program: Patient Experiences from the First Program Year

• Comprehensive report drawing on enrollment information, surveys, and patient self-evaluation data completed prior to each medical cannabis purchase. Chapters include: Patient/Caregiver/Healthcare Practitioner descriptive information, Frequency and duration of medical cannabis purchases, Medical cannabis use patters, Benefits, Adverse side effects, Affordability, and Suggestions for improving the program. Extensive appendices include verbatim comments from patients and healthcare practitioners on benefits, adverse side effects, and suggestions for improving the program.

Early Survey Results from the Office of Medical Cannabis - May 2016

• This report shares results from surveys of patients who enrolled in the program during its first three months and their certifying health care practitioners. A focus of the survey is a rating by the patient of overall benefit and overall negative impact to them from their participation in the program - and parallel assessments by the patient’s certifying health care practitioner. Respondents were also asked to describe the benefits and the negative impacts. Make sure to spend some time reviewing the appendices, where the respondents’ own words are shared.