Asking emergency department (ED) providers to self-identify their opioid prescribing practices and then providing them with timely, clinically relevant, individualized, and actionable feedback on their actual opioid prescribing data significantly decreases future opioid prescribing among providers who underestimate their baseline prescribing. That is the finding of a study published in the May 2018 issue of… Continue reading Providing Clinicians with Feedback on Their Opioid Prescribing Data Alters Future Prescribing
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New Guidance for Safe Opioid Prescription for Hospitalized Patients with Acute Pain
For hospitalized patients, pain is an all-too-common part of the experience. Among U.S. patients who have not undergone surgery, more than half receive at least one dose of an opioid for acute pain during their stay. Even as current research demonstrates that hospitalized patients’ exposure to opioids has contributed to the nationwide addiction epidemic,… Continue reading New Guidance for Safe Opioid Prescription for Hospitalized Patients with Acute Pain