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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/primary-care-research/summary.html
January 01, 2024 - realistic steps to reduce clinician burnout  
 Supported development of the Six Building Blocks model for opioid … care 
 Increased access to Medication-Assisted Treatment to over 20,000 individuals struggling with opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/944.html
January 01, 2025 - Register Now: Feb. 10 Webinar Will Highlight Evidence on Advancing Rapid Response Systems and Opioid … Register Now: Feb. 10 Webinar Will Highlight Evidence on Advancing Rapid Response Systems and Opioid … Making Healthcare Safer IV: Opioid Stewardship  explores the use of prescribed and ordered opioids, including
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/2022-national-healthcare-disparities-report.html
November 01, 2022 - Substance use disorders:  The opioid epidemic has cost more than $400 billion yearly in lost productivity … Although the rise in opioid-related deaths had briefly flattened between 2017–2018, rates of overdose … deaths involving any opioid have begun to rise again, increasing by 36.8 percent between 2019 and 2020
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Maddox_38.pdf
March 26, 2008 - potential for patient harm.4, 5, 6, 7, 8 
 
 
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The use of patient controlled analgesia (PCA) for IV opioid … from PCA in the 
postoperative period, including a low but unpredictable incidence of life-threatening opioid … young healthy patients.9 Even correctly programmed IV 
infusion of therapeutic doses can result in opioid-related … Respiratory status changes are a leading indicator of an adverse patient response to opioid 
infusion … in serious 
adverse events.4 
 
Patient Controlled Analgesia  
Despite the effectiveness of PCA for opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/954.html
April 01, 2025 - April 22, 2025 
 AHRQ Stats: Average Annual Spending on Adult Opioid Prescriptions Between 2021 and 2022 … hydrocodone totaled $700 million, accounting for nearly 75 percent of the total $3.5 billion spent on all opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/17-engaging-stakeholders-data.docx
June 01, 2023 - years and older)a
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/52-regional-analgesia-arthroplasty-facilitator.docx
June 01, 2023 - This reduces reliance upon opioid-based medications, which have a number of unwanted side effects, including … manage patients with indwelling catheters (either epidural or peripheral nerve catheters) or intrathecal opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/ahrq-2024-proposed-budget.html
March 01, 2023 - in maternal healthcare  and opportunities to address the mental illnesses of despair that drive the opioid … $10 million for research to prevent, identify, and provide integrated treatment for opioid and multiple
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2018qdr-mepsmethods.pdf
January 01, 2020 - potentially inappropriate prescription medications in the calendar year, 
dental visit in the calendar year, opioid … Opioid prescription fills—This measure includes outpatient prescription fills of 
opioids commonly used … We examine the percentage of adults who filled an outpatient opioid prescription in the 
calendar year … and the percentage of adults who filled four or more outpatient opioid 
prescriptions in the calendar … The definition of opioid prescription is the same as 
the one used in MEPS Statistical Brief 515, Any
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/appendix-d.html
May 01, 2024 - Care for Children 
 P12: Using a Televideo-based Training Model for Providers to Expand Treatment for Opioid … Children  (PI: DeVoe) P12: Using a Televideo-based Training Model for Providers to Expand Treatment for Opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/announcements.html
December 01, 2022 - Special Emphasis Notice on AHRQ’s Interest in Health Services Research to Address the Opioid Crisis .
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2025-annual-report/person-centered.html
August 01, 2025 - Patient Perspectives on Prescription Opioid Discontinuation: Understanding and Promoting Safe Transitions … Investigates the experiences of patients and primary care clinicians who have discontinued long-term opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/965.html
July 01, 2025 - Stats: Highest Per-User Spending on Opioids Annual average spending was $282 per patient for outpatient opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/sepsis-data-tool.html
March 01, 2025 - visualizations  for information on diverse topics such as trends in ownership of healthcare practices, opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/priority-populations/aging-well-strategic-plan.pdf
August 01, 2024 - For example, AHRQ-funded research includes, 
but is not limited to, opioid use in older adults with chronic … Examples of funded research on opioid use in older adults includes 
a longitudinal study at Ohio State … R01; HS029001-01A1; 2023-2028) assessing the associations of uncontrolled pain, 
multimorbidity and opioid–drug … interactions with risk for opioid use disorder (OUD) or overdose in older adults, and 
research funded … misuse, appropriate prescribing and management of opioid use in older adults in primary 
care.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2019-04-nac/nacmtg0419-minutes.html
July 01, 2019 - Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) helped to quantify opioid … For example, in 2015-2016, about 10 million elderly adults filled at least 1 opioid prescription and … about 4 million elderly adults filled 4 or more opioid prescriptions. … Masica noted that the recent accomplishments track with the current main priorities for the Agency (opioid … proposal features a $4.5 million research contract to accelerate evidence on preventing and treating opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/action-alliance/resources/index.html
March 01, 2025 - Preparedness Falls Healthcare-Associated Infections Maternal Safety Medication Safety Never Events Opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/data/infographics/sud-inpatient-stays.pdf
January 01, 2016 - Disorders
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State-level Rate of Inpatient Stays During 2016-2018 
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/primary-care-research/results.html
January 01, 2024 - Motivated to reduce the volume of opioid overdoses and deaths in the Northwest United States, and to … lessen the burden of opioid prescribing on primary care clinicians, the WWAMI region's Practice Based … common to successful primary care-based opioid management programs ( Figure 8 ). … In 2016, AHRQ launched the "Increasing Access to Medication-Assisted Treatment of Opioid Abuse in Rural … , and disseminate strategies to improve the management of opioid use, misuse, and opioid use disorder
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/about/pcr-webinar-series/person-centered-care.html
July 01, 2024 - (University of Oklahoma College of Medicine), Reducing Opioid Use Incidence in Seniors in Oklahoma (RISE-OK