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61. Clinicians' perceptions of medication errors with opioids in cancer and palliative care services: a priority setting report. | PSNet
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    June 01, 2016 - Commentary Clinicians' perceptions of medication errors with opioids in cancer and … Clinicians' perceptions of medication errors with opioids in cancer and palliative care services: a priority … Clinicians' perceptions of medication errors with opioids in cancer and palliative care services: a priority … July 19, 2017 Efficacy, tolerability, and dose-dependent effects of opioid analgesics

62. Misuse, abuse and medication errors' adverse events associated with opioids--a systematic review. | PSNet
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    January 15, 2025 - Review Misuse, abuse and medication errors' adverse events associated with opioids … Misuse, abuse and medication errors' adverse events associated with opioids--a systematic review. … Even when opioids are appropriately prescribed, some patients may end up abusing or misusing them … The most frequently mentioned opioids were morphine, fentanyl, and oxycodone. … Misuse, abuse and medication errors' adverse events associated with opioids--a systematic review.

63. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    December 15, 2024 - Although this class of medications has always been considered high risk, prescribing of opioids increased … For many years, opioids were routinely prescribed for pain of any etiology, despite the fact that opioids … Many patients who use illicit opioids, such as heroin and fentanyl, began using these substances to … manage their withdrawal from prescription opioids. … Studies of the epidemiology of adverse drug events in the early 2000s consistently found that opioids

64. Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines by prescribers and primary care managers: a randomized clinical trial. | PSNet
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    September 07, 2022 - Study Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids and … Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines by prescribers … Concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines can put patients at increased risk of overdose … Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines by prescribers … December 2, 2020 Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid

65. Opioids for pain management in older adults: strategies for safe prescribing. | PSNet
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    January 26, 2022 - Commentary Opioids for pain management in older adults: strategies for safe prescribing … Opioids for pain management in older adults. … Use of opioids for pain management in older adults can contribute to various problems, including … This commentary discusses the role of nurse practitioners as prescribers of opioids and offers practice … Opioids for pain management in older adults.

66. Opioid guidelines for common dental surgical procedures: a multidisciplinary panel consensus. | PSNet
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    April 28, 2021 - The over-prescribing of opioids is a recognized contributor to patient harm. … manage pain after dental procedures while reducing harm to patients: (1) Offer alternatives to opioids … October 28, 2020 Potentially inappropriate medication combination with opioids among … May 6, 2020 Overprescribing of opioids to adults by dentists in the U.S., 2011-2015. … February 22, 2019 Opioids for chronic noncancer pain: a position paper of the American

67. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    January 26, 2022 - The Commentary by Hollie Porras, PharmD, BCPS, and Cathy Lammers, MD Background Opioids are routinely … Dose stacking can also occur when a patient receives opioids via numerous sources or routes. … Finally, not all discomfort and pain respond to opioids. … A patient whose pain is not responding to repeated dosing of opioids may need a change in strategy. … Prescribing of opioid analgesics and related mortality before and after the introduction of long-acting

68. Patient Options for Safe and Effective Disposal of Unused Opioids. | PSNet
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    March 06, 2019 - Book/Report Patient Options for Safe and Effective Disposal of Unused Opioids. … Citation Text: Patient Options for Safe and Effective Disposal of Unused Opioids. … Examining programs to safely collect unused prescription opioids for disposal and patient awareness … that many adults are unaware these programs exist or choose to retain or sell unused prescription opioids … Citation Citation Text: Patient Options for Safe and Effective Disposal of Unused Opioids

69. Alternatives to opioid education and a prescription drug monitoring program cumulatively decreased outpatient opioid prescriptions. | PSNet
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    April 06, 2022 - the implementation of a prescription drug monitoring program , clinical education on alternatives to opioids … Findings indicate that these three approaches can decrease the amount of opioids prescribed in an acute … April 27, 2022 Provider bias in prescribing opioid analgesics: a study of electronic

70. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    February 23, 2022 - analgesics in low back pain management Discuss how pain-related stigma can compromise effective, timely … The three themes of this case – low back pain, lung cancer screening and diagnosis, and opioid analgesics … Conversations about chronic pain management and opioid analgesics can be difficult but conveying genuine … Acute back pain should generally not be managed with opioid analgesics; instead, failure of symptom … Stigma associated with opioid analgesics can contribute to diagnostic errors.

71. Opioids prescribed after low-risk surgical procedures in the United States, 2004–2012. | PSNet
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    May 29, 2024 - Study Opioids prescribed after low-risk surgical procedures in the United States, … Opioids Prescribed After Low-Risk Surgical Procedures in the United States, 2004-2012. … The authors suggest that further studies examine an association between receiving opioids after a low-risk … Opioids Prescribed After Low-Risk Surgical Procedures in the United States, 2004-2012. … Strategies to identify patient risks of prescription opioid addiction when initiating opioids

72. Association of household opioid availability and prescription opioid initiation among household members. | PSNet
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    April 24, 2018 - Opioids are high-risk medications and a significant source of patient harm . … remains uncertain whether individuals living in a household with a patient receiving prescription opioids … are more likely to initiate prescription opioids. … The risk of opioid initiation in the following year among those exposed to prescription opioids was 11.83% … September 20, 2011 Wide variation and overprescription of opioids after elective surgery

73. Patient Safety and Opioid Medications | PSNet
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    January 01, 2015 - Recent years have seen increasingly frequent reports of harms, to the point that in 2016 opioids became … Moreover, an analysis of new prescriptions of long-acting opioids for chronic noncancer pain showed … a minimum, to better educate and monitor patients on opioids as part of a broad safety strategy. … –2010, despite the lack of evidence regarding the benefit of using opioids in this setting. … April 12, 2019 How to maximize patient safety when prescribing opioids.

74. Association of dose tapering with overdose or mental health crisis among patients prescribed long-term opioids. | PSNet
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    July 13, 2022 - Association of dose tapering with overdose or mental health crisis among patients prescribed long-term opioids … Association of dose tapering with overdose or mental health crisis among patients prescribed long-term opioids … Sudden discontinuation of opioids has been linked to increased patient harm. … May 18, 2022 Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid … January 18, 2023 Inappropriate prescribing of opioids for patients undergoing surgery

75. Microsoft PowerPoint - FINAL CME Reviewed Spotlight_Loss of Trust and a Missed Diagnosis_02.14.20221 - clean - REVISED.pptx (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2022 - Describe evidence-based first line treatments for low back pain and assess the appropriate role of opioid … analgesics in low back pain management • Discuss how pain-related stigma can compromise effective, … • The three themes of this case – low back pain, lung cancer screening and diagnosis, and opioid … • Conversations about chronic pain management and opioid analgesics can be difficult but conveying … Take-Home Points (2) 37 • Stigma associated with opioid analgesics can contribute to diagnostic errors

76. Overdose risk in young children of women prescribed opioids. | PSNet
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    September 07, 2016 - Study Overdose risk in young children of women prescribed opioids. … Overdose Risk in Young Children of Women Prescribed Opioids. … control study examined the risk of opioid overdose among children whose mothers were prescribed either opioids … overdose, those who were hospitalized or died were more likely to have a mother who was prescribed opioids … Overdose Risk in Young Children of Women Prescribed Opioids.

77. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    September 18, 2024 - Misuse, abuse and medication errors' adverse events associated with opioids--a systematic review. … Misuse, abuse and medication errors' adverse events associated with opioids--a systematic review. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/misuse-abuse-and-medication-errors-adverse-events-associated-opioids- systematic-review … Even when opioids are appropriately prescribed, some patients may end up abusing or misusing them. … The most frequently mentioned opioids were morphine, fentanyl, and oxycodone.

78. An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed chronic opioids and benzodiazepines. | PSNet
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    March 23, 2022 - An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed chronic opioids … An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed chronic opioids and benzodiazepines … This study describes an electronic intervention to identify patients coprescribed opioids and benzodiazepines … The intervention significantly reduced the proportion of patients coprescribed opioids and benzodiazepines … An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed chronic opioids and benzodiazepines

79. Patterns of opioid administration among opioid-naive inpatients and associations with postdischarge opioid use: a cohort study. | PSNet
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    November 05, 2008 - Many people who illicitly use opioids first received those medications in health care settings . … This retrospective cohort study found that people who were prescribed opioids in the hospital are more … likely to be dependent on them after discharge, especially if they took opioids within 12 hours of leaving … August 16, 2017 Prescription of long-acting opioids and mortality in patients with chronic … July 31, 2017 Trends in medical and nonmedical use of prescription opioids among US adolescents

80. Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective analysis. | PSNet
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    November 16, 2022 - Study Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines … Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective … Concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepines increases risk for adverse drug events . … was greater for patients with concurrent use of these two medication classes compared to patients on opioids … Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines and overdose: retrospective