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21. Health Systems Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2021 - solve the challenge of the substance use disorder epidemic, from improving management of prescription opioids … Managing opioids in older adults is especially complex and challenging. … Risk of Acute Asthma Associated With the Pediatric Use of Opioids. … Prescribing of opioids at hospital discharge and associated adverse patient outcomes. … Dental prescribing of antibiotics and opioids: high use in the absence of evidence.

22. Trends in the Rate of Opioid-Related Hospitalizations | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    May 01, 2019 - National Demographics: Patient Location Affected most from opioids are large central metropolitan areas

23. Data and Analytics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2021 - Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) collect a wealth of information that help expand the knowledge base on opioids

24. How to Complete the Practice Self-Assessment Tool for Opioid Use in Older Adults (pdf file)
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    December 01, 2023 - is organized into seven HLC areas related to providing care for your older adult patients who use opioids

25. Statistical Briefs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Statistical Briefs MEPS Statistical Brief #552: Any Use and "Frequent Use" of Opioids Among Non-Elderly … MEPS Statistical Brief #551: Any Use and "Frequent Use" of Opioids Among Elderly Adults in 2020-2021, … MEPS Statistical Brief #542: Any Use and "Frequent Use" of Opioids Among Non-Elderly Adults in 2018-2019 … MEPS Statistical Brief #541: Any Use and "Frequent Use" of Opioids Among Elderly Adults in 2018-2019, … Utilization, and Sources of Payment for Outpatient Prescription Opioids in the U.S.

26. Provider bias in prescribing opioid analgesics: a study of electronic medical records at a hospital emergency department. | PSNet
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    September 30, 2020 - Study Provider bias in prescribing opioid analgesics: a study of electronic medical … Provider bias in prescribing opioid analgesics: a study of electronic medical records at a hospital emergency … large U.S. hospital, researchers found that providers were significantly less likely to prescribe opioids … during constrained diagnostic situations and less likely to prescribe opioids to high-risk patients … Provider bias in prescribing opioid analgesics: a study of electronic medical records at a hospital emergency

27. U.S. Adults Who Use Opioids for Chronic Pain, 2013-2015 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2019 - Adults Who Use Opioids for Chronic Pain, 2013-2015 U.S. … Adults Who Use Opioids for Chronic Pain, 2013-2015 (PDF, 167 KB) Source: MEPS Research Findings

28. Opioids and Substance Use Disorders: What's New | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2024 - Opioids and Substance Use Disorders: What's New AHRQ's latest news on its efforts to help end … May 2024 Opioids Newsroom AHRQ's blog posts, infographics, and announcements on its latest efforts to

29. Access to prescription opioids—Primum Non Nocere: a teachable moment. | PSNet
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    July 02, 2019 - Commentary Access to prescription opioids—Primum Non Nocere: a teachable moment. … Access to Prescription Opioids-Primum Non Nocere: A Teachable Moment. … Insufficient medication counseling and suboptimal prescribing practices contribute to misuse of opioids … Access to Prescription Opioids-Primum Non Nocere: A Teachable Moment. … January 23, 2019 Assessment of potentially inappropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics

30. Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Opioids, Opioid Misuse and Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults: Protocol (pdf file)
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    June 29, 2019 - older adults is, thus, commonly difficult to manage as many older adults are unable to tolerate non-opioid … analgesics (e.g., non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) due to impaired liver or kidney function, … Opioid analgesics and the risk of fractures in older adults with arthritis. … Adverse effects of analgesics commonly used by older adults with osteoarthritis: focus on non-opioid and opioid … analgesics.

31. Practice Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - Practice Improvement Research and tools to help patients, providers and health systems put evidence into practice. Evidence for Practice : Knowing what works for treatment and prevention. Implementing What Works : Tools and strategies to implement what works for practice improvement and patient safety. …

32. Opioid Stewardship | PSNet
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    December 15, 2024 - Much of the epidemic can be ascribed to inappropriate prescribing of opioids, despite knowledge of the … WebM&M features two cases involving patients undergoing surgical procedures who received perioperative opioid … analgesics to aid in pain and... … WebM&M features two cases involving patients undergoing surgical procedures who received perioperative opioid … analgesics to aid in pain and sedation efforts and who experienced adverse events due to opioid stacking

33. New Clinical Processes and Improving Workflows for Opioid Management in a Geriatric Clinic: Using Input from The Team Case Study (pdf file)
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    June 02, 2025 - the QI-lead recognized the need to implement harm– reduction strategies when prescribing long-term opioids … The QI-lead then shifed the focus of the project to improving care for patients prescribed opioids for … The QI lead conducted a session on the risks of opioids for older adults and components of the updated … the needs were, and it was not about the use disorder, which is where I wanted to start, but about opioids

34. Safe use of opioids in hospitals. | PSNet
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    February 28, 2018 - Sentinel Event Alerts Safe use of opioids in hospitals. … Because these medications are frequently used to treat acute pain in the hospital, opioids account for

35. Quantifying the burden of opioid medication errors in adult oncology and palliative care settings: a systematic review. | PSNet
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    May 22, 2019 - Opioids are commonly used to manage pain in patients with cancer and those near the end of life. … Although opioids offer many therapeutic benefits, they are also a known high-risk medication . … This lack of data hinders better understanding of the balance between risks and benefits of opioids in … August 23, 2017 Efficacy, tolerability, and dose-dependent effects of opioid analgesics … January 5, 2017 How to maximize patient safety when prescribing opioids.

36. Non-Elderly Use of Opioids, 2015-2016 (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2018 - Non-Elderly Use of Opioids, 2015-2016 0 5 10 15 20 0 5 10 15 20 0 5 10 15 20 Non-Elderly … Use of Opioids, 2015-2016 An average 26 million non-elderly adults filled an opioid prescription per … Source: MEPS, Any Use and Frequent Use of Opioids among Non-Elderly Adults in 2015-2016, by Socioeconomic

37. Opioid Outpatient Prescriptions Dispensed to Adults, 2017 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2020 - Total Expenses, Total Utilization, and Sources of Payment for Outpatient Prescription Opioids in the … Total Expenses, Total Utilization, and Sources of Payment for Outpatient Prescription Opioids in the

38. Opioids in Older Adults Compendium | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2024 - Opioids in Older Adults Compendium The purpose of this change package, known as the Compendium … High Leverage Changes HLC: Opioid Data Identify, track, and monitor the use of opioids … define roles and responsibilities, promote coordinated team-based care management for older adults on opioids … care services so that the clinician may address them at the next patient visit) for older adults on opioids … , biases, and assumptions on equity in the use of shared decision making for older adults regarding opioids

39. CER 229 Evidence Summary: Opioid Treatments for Chronic Pain (pdf file)
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    April 01, 2020 - used (e.g., pure opioid agonists, partial opioid agonists such as buprenorphine, or drugs with mixed … , partial opioid agonists such as buprenorphine, or drugs with opioid and nonopioid mechanisms of … versus placebo, opioids versus nonopioids, opioids plus nonopioids versus nonopioids alone, and opioids … Harms of opioids vs. … Opioid analgesics and the risk of fractures in older adults with arthritis.

40. Wide variation and overprescription of opioids after elective surgery. | PSNet
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    April 24, 2018 - Study Classic Wide variation and overprescription of opioids … Wide Variation and Overprescription of Opioids After Elective Surgery. … Nearly all patients were prescribed opioids after elective surgery. … Wide Variation and Overprescription of Opioids After Elective Surgery. … December 19, 2017 Prescription opioid analgesics commonly unused after surgery: a systematic