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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-person-centered.html
May 01, 2024 - Care for Children 
 P12: Using a Televideo-based Training Model for Providers to Expand Treatment for Opioid … Patient Perspectives on Prescription Opioid Discontinuation: Understanding and Promoting Safe Transitions … Investigates the experiences of patients and providers who have discontinued opioids for long term opioid … Addressing Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults Through Primary Care Innovation (OUD-PCI) (R18) PIs:
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2015-03-nac/nacmtg0315-minutes.html
July 01, 2015 - Site Infections Following Ambulatory Surgery Procedures 
    Hospital Inpatient Utilization Related to Opioid … Return to Contents 
   Hospital Inpatient Utilization Related to Opioid Overuse Among Adults, 1993–2012 … Washington reported on a study of trends in opioid misuse and abuse, using HCUP data. … In the 20-year period, hospitalization rates for opioid misuse broadened geographically, rising in U.S … Continued efforts to address hospitalization and death related to opioid misuse are needed.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/lambert-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - We built and tested our opioid simulator and demonstrated its effects as a teaching 
tool. … Key Words: Medication safety, adverse drug events, statistical methods, opioid dosing, simulation, drug … Project Area 2: Simulation Training to Improve the Safety of Inpatient Opioid Use
2.A. … The intervention was training on 
an internet-based opioid dosing simulator. … v=0z-ODKUN7y4&feature=youtu.be 
Opioid Dosing Simulator (dosingsim.org) 
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=1
January 01, 2024 - Topic(s):  Care Coordination, Discharge Planning Publication Date:  August 2022 
 
 
 
 Prescription Opioid … Use Trajectories and Risk Factors Associated with Opioid-Related Hospitalizations in Older Adults
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=0
September 01, 2024 - Number:  R18 HS 026874 Topic(s):  Medication Safety Publication Date:  March 2024 
 
 
 
 Preventing Opioid … Misuse through Safe Opioid Use Agreements between Patients and Surgical Providers (PROMISE-ME)   ( application
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/o.html
June 12, 2025 - Topics Browse A - Z 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Obesity   Opioids   Osteoporosis   Outcomes
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2019-11-nac/nacmtg01121-minutes.html
March 01, 2020 - Behavioral Health and Primary Care has developed a document titled “Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid … Yu asked about the adoption of the Opioid Use Disorder Playbook. … States added the opioid overdose crisis, which now is led by synthetic opioids (fentanyl and fentanyl … States noted that President Trump and HHS Secretary Alex Azar are committed to ending the opioid crisis
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2017-07-nac/nacmtg0717-minutes.html
November 01, 2017 - Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price’s call to address the opioid epidemic … AHRQ reported that, for women, overall hospitalizations for opioid pain relievers and heroin were up … from AHRQ’s HCUP, presented in its Fast Stats series, showed the rapid rise in hospital use related to opioid … David Atkins, M.D., M.P.H., suggested that AHRQ study the effects of State policies on the trends in opioid … The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is working on topics including clinician burden, opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/recent-grants-health-equity.html
May 01, 2024 - Care for Children 
 P12: Using a Televideo-based Training Model for Providers to Expand Treatment for Opioid … The opioid and mental health crisis have continued to worsen, including worsening suicide death rates … between 2008 and 2018 and increased opioid-related emergency department visits between 2005 and 2018
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/gurwitz2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - substantial proportion of ADEs associated with these 
medications are considered preventable.2,3,12 Insulins, opioid-containing … Medication
Anticoagulant 184 50.97 98 54.44 86 47.51 0.19
Anti-Diabetic 135 37.40 71 39.44 64 35.36 0.42
Opioid … Fondaparinux 1 0.3 1 0.6 0 0.0
Rivaroxaban 9 2.5 5 2.8 4 2.2
Warfarin 94 26.0 51 28.3 43 23.8
Opioids 
Opioid … Anticoagulants
Anticoagulant Facts
Apixaban
Dabigatran
Enoxaparin
Fondaparinux
Rivaroxaban
Warfarin
Opioids
Opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/booklets/laparotomy-patient.pdf
November 01, 2023 - ■ Opioid [OH-pee-oid] pain medications are only used if needed. … Why avoid opioid pain medications? … The best way help get food and gas moving again is to: 
 ■ Avoid opioid pain medications
 ■ Get up
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/927.html
August 01, 2024 - Racial and ethnic disparities in opioid prescribing on hospital discharge among older adults: a national … Timing of treatment for opioid use disorder among birthing people. Kim K, Liu G, Dick AW, et al.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2020-03-nac/nacmtg032620-minutes.html
August 01, 2020 - improvement 
 
 AHRQ produced a self-service how-to guide, which augments the Agency’s “Six Building Blocks” opioid … Integrated initiatives 
 
 AHRQ supported a study that showed increasing U.S. opioid-related hospitalizations … The Agency is supporting ongoing strategies to improve opioid management. … For example, old opioid medications should be collected from patients when they obtain new prescriptions
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/communities/pbrn/registry/ohio-valley-node-clinical-trials-network.html
March 27, 2015 - to conduct the research needed to address addiction-related public health care crises, including the opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/index.html?page=2
January 01, 2024 - Number:  R18 HS 025128 Topic(s):  Patient Safety Tools Publication Date:  July 2021 
 
 
 
 Toward Safer Opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/about-this-report.html
March 01, 2024 - Care for Children 
 P12: Using a Televideo-based Training Model for Providers to Expand Treatment for Opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/studies/index.html
January 01, 2025 - Chatham AH ,  Bradley ED ,   Troiani V   Automating the addiction behaviors checklist for problematic opioid … The purpose of this study was to develop an automated method for identifying problematic opioid use in … technique offers potential for earlier identification of patients experiencing or at risk for problematic opioid … use, creating new opportunities for studying long-term effects of opioid pain management. … Automating the addiction behaviors checklist for problematic opioid use identification.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/44-sample-pathway-checklist.docx
June 01, 2023 - assessment and risk counseling (can include diabetes manangment, smoking/tobacco cessation, anemia, opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2024-annual-report/appendix-a.html
May 01, 2024 - Care for Children 
 P12: Using a Televideo-based Training Model for Providers to Expand Treatment for Opioid
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/968.html
July 01, 2025 - A toolkit to implement opioid quality improvement efforts in primary care: findings from a mixed-methods … J Opioid Manag  2025 Jan-Feb;21(1):29-40. Access the  abstract  on PubMed®.