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August 01, 2022 - Whether it’s building an opioid tapering app or trying to improve misdiagnosis of cardiovascular disease … engineering methods to develop clinical decision support systems to help patients safely taper from long-term opioid … “Opioid tapering is a highly sensitive subject,” Dr. … identifies patients at high risk of harm from opioids and provides evidence-based guidelines to support opioid … The app includes a calculator that displays the recommended drop in opioid-dose reduction, which can
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April 01, 2017 - AHRQ currently funds Project ECHO to reduce opioid abuse in rural communities. … Primary care doctors and nurses on the frontlines of the opioid epidemic are receiving remote training … AHRQ Data on Opioid Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits
Analysis from AHRQ’s Healthcare … According to AHRQ’s analysis, the rate of opioid-related hospital stays increased 64 percent between … The data illustrate the wide divide among States in opioid-related hospitalizations: In 2014, Maryland
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July 01, 2021 - Data Analyses
Health Systems Research
Practice Improvement
About AHRQ’s Opioid
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April 01, 2014 - mild‐to‐moderate pain should
include NSAIDs or acetaminophen
• If mild‐to‐moderate pain persists, and opioid … Persistent or moderate‐to‐severe pain relies
on repeated assessments and appropriate
increases in opioid … frequent
assessment to maintain pain control, make
adjustments due to tolerance or adverse effects of
opioid … steps: treat the
cause, if possible; begin analgesics; start fluids; for
acute pain, administer an opioid … Patients with severe pain should be given an opioid
parenterally at frequent, fixed intervals, not as
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October 01, 2023 - October 24, 2023
AHRQ Stats: Racial Differences in Opioid Use Among Older Adults
In 2020-2021, 14 … percent of non-Hispanic White adults aged 65 and older filled an opioid prescription on average annually … AHRQ Topic Brief Supports Primary Care Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder . … AHRQ Topic Brief Supports Primary Care Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
The AHRQ Academy , which aims … new topic brief to help primary care clinicians deliver low-threshold treatment for patients with opioid
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September 01, 2022 - Disseminating Evidence into Practice
Health IT and Digital Health
Rural Access to MAT for Opioid … Increasing Access to MAT of Opioid Use in Rural Primary Care Practices : AHRQ initiative to increase … medication-assisted treatment for opioid abuse in rural primary care practices.
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March 01, 2022 - Postoperative Changes in Opioid Use Impact Healthcare Spending . … Postoperative Changes in Opioid Use Impact Healthcare Spending
Patients who utilized opioids chronically … review of claims data from over 53,000 privately insured patients found that those who increased their opioid … use by 20 percent spent around $1,100 less, suggesting an opportunity to reduce expenditures through opioid
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January 01, 2024 - use following initiation onto medication for opioid use disorder. … use after initiation of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD). … Associations between stimulant use and return to illicit opioid use following initiation onto medication … for opioid use disorder. … Priorities for well child care of families affected by parental opioid use disorder.
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July 01, 2021 - AHRQ’s initiative on Opioid Use in Older Adults , which will provide important lessons on avoiding harms … prevent, identify, and treat substance use disorders to stem the epidemic of deaths and harms from opioid … To help primary care practices address the ongoing opioid epidemic in rural areas, AHRQ’s medication-assisted … AHRQ’s Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Playbook serves as a comprehensive guide
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October 01, 2023 - Impact Case Study: Expanded AHRQ Initiative Enables Rural Primary Care Providers in New Mexico To Treat Opioid … Impact Case Study: Expanded AHRQ Initiative Enables Rural Primary Care Providers in New Mexico To Treat Opioid … ECHO model to train clinicians in the use of proven medication-assisted treatment for patients with opioid … (At left, Chris Alliman, M.D., talks with a patient in Albuquerque about medication for opioid use disorder
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February 01, 2024 - Survey (MEPS)
(17)
Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety
(2)
Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid … Online Training Enables Primary Care Providers in Rural New Mexico to Prescribe Medication for Opioid … Access to MAT in Rural Primary Care Practices Cooperative Grants, Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid … January 2022
Primary Care Providers in Pennsylvania Use Medication for Successful Treatment of Opioid
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June 01, 2021 - Reduced Continued Use of Opioids
The proportion of chronic pain patients who maintained an existing opioid … While just under 35 percent of existing opioid users received tapered prescriptions prior to the CDC … However, CDC guidance had no impact on the initiation of opioid prescriptions for new chronic pain patients
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November 01, 2020 - Science University Report Status: Final
Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Opioids, Opioid … Misuse, and Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults Date: November 2020
Report Type: Technical Briefs … Status: Final
Retention Strategies for Medications for Addiction Treatment in Adults With Opioid
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June 01, 2023 - 25702 Topic(s): Discharge Planning, Nursing Homes Publication Date: August 2022
Prescription Opioid … Use Trajectories and Risk Factors Associated with Opioid-Related Hospitalizations in Older Adults … Number: R18 HS 025128 Topic(s): Patient Safety Tools Publication Date: July 2021
Toward Safer Opioid
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January 01, 2023 - The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Science , demonstrates that opioid … which at least one person was prescribed opioids after surgery, researchers found that the rate of opioid
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July 01, 2022 - more than doubled between 1993 and 2012, when there were more than 700,000 Americans hospitalized for opioid … This warning contributed to HHS' launch of a major multipronged initiative to reduce opioid abuse in … Discovering how to better provide opioid addiction treatment services in rural communities.
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May 01, 2016 - than
doubled between 1993 and 2012, when there were
more than 700,000 Americans hospitalized for
opioid … This warning contributed to HHS’
launch of a major multipronged initiative to reduce
opioid abuse in … – Discovering how to better provide opioid addiction
treatment services in rural communities.
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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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June 01, 2021 - though from 2016 to 2018, the population rate of stimulant-only related stays increased 22 percent while opioid-only … (Source: AHRQ, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #271: Opioid-Related and Stimulant-Related
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March 01, 2023 - Evaluation of policies limiting opioid exposure on opioid prescribing and patient pain in opioid-naive