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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program

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  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. RESEARCH FINDINGS #45: Average Annual Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MMEs) of Outpatient Prescription Opioids and Share of Total MMEs among Elderly and Non-Elderly Adults in 2015-2016

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    November 01, 2019 - RESEARCH FINDINGS #45: Average Annual Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MMEs) of Outpatient Prescription Opioids … Introduction Examining patterns of use of outpatient prescribed opioids can contribute to efforts to … Conversely, the share of opioids obtained by Hispanics and persons of other racial-ethnic groups (6.4 … prescription opioids that are commonly used to treat pain. … These opioids are identified using generic drug names for narcotic analgesics and narcotic analgesic

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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

  16. Behavioral Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    March 01, 2022 - MEPS Statistical Briefs Any Use and Frequent Use of Opioids among Non-Elderly Adults in 2018-2019 … , by Socioeconomic Characteristics (MEPS Stat Brief #542) Any Use and Frequent Use of Opioids among … Brief #534) Total Expenses, Total Utilization, and Sources of Payment for Outpatient Prescription Opioids … Published Research (2020 to present) Opioids and Other Substances Tobacco Surcharges Associated

  17. PDMP and Opioid Hospitalizations (pdf file)

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    October 03, 2017 - BACKGROUND The United States is facing an epidemic of opioid abuse that largely is driven by prescription opioid … analgesics. … Although the use of illicit opioids is of growing concern, especially in association with addiction … Unsolicited reporting to prescribers of opioid analgesics by a state prescription drug monitoring program … Prescription monitoring programs and emergency department visits involving opioids, 2004-2011.

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47073/psn-pdf
    July 02, 2019 - Physician prescribing of opioids to patients at increased risk of overdose from benzodiazepine use in … Physician Prescribing of Opioids to Patients at Increased Risk of Overdose From Benzodiazepine Use in … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/physician-prescribing-opioids-patients-increased-risk-overdose- benzodiazepine-use-united … Patients prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines concurrently may be at increased risk for adverse drug … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cdc-guideline-prescribing-opioids-chronic-pain-united-states-2016
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