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21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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. …

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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.

33. 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.

34. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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    September 25, 2019 - Patient Options for Safe and Effective Disposal of Unused Opioids. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/patient-options-safe-and-effective-disposal-unused-opioids One strategy … Examining programs to safely collect unused prescription opioids for disposal and patient awareness and … that many adults are unaware these programs exist or choose to retain or sell unused prescription opioids … /primer/opioid-safety https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-opioid-analgesics-commonly-unused-after-surgery-systematic-review

35. Implementing What Works | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2024 - built several of its projects around helping patients, clinicians, and health systems respond to the opioids … Opioids and Pain Management artifacts facilitate integration of recommendations from the CDC 2016 Opioid … Highlights of the report include: 19 PCCDS tools that support patient care for pain, opioids, and … use disorder (OUD). 5 Future Scenarios that illustrate the uses of PCCDS for pain management and opioids … this Q&A with AHRQ grantee Michael Parchman:  Six Building Blocks help small rural clinics to manage opioids

36. Prescription Opioids: Medicare Needs to Expand Oversight Efforts to Reduce the Risk of Harm. | PSNet
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    December 06, 2017 - Book/Report Prescription Opioids: Medicare Needs to Expand Oversight Efforts to Reduce … Citation Text: Prescription Opioids: Medicare Needs to Expand Oversight Efforts to Reduce the Risk … December 9, 2020 Patient Options for Safe and Effective Disposal of Unused Opioids. … outpatient measures for reduction of adverse drug events from anticoagulants, diabetes agents, and opioid … analgesics.

37. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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    September 01, 2014 - Anesthesiology. 2012;116:248-273. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22227789 7 Using Opioid Analgesics … Once a decision is made to use opioid analgesics to manage acute post-operative pain, it is important … J Pain. 2009;10:113-130. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19187889 8 Using Opioid Analgesics (2) … Analgesics To optimally calculate and titrate doses, it’s often easiest to convert to "oral morphine … analgesics to maximize analgesia and reduce opioid requirements.

38. Physician prescribing of opioids to patients at increased risk of overdose from benzodiazepine use in the United States. | PSNet
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    September 27, 2016 - Study Emerging Classic Physician prescribing of opioids … Physician Prescribing of Opioids to Patients at Increased Risk of Overdose From Benzodiazepine Use in … Patients prescribed opioids and benzodiazepines concurrently may be at increased risk for adverse … Physician Prescribing of Opioids to Patients at Increased Risk of Overdose From Benzodiazepine Use in … October 3, 2018 Assessment of potentially inappropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics

39. Final Progress Report: Risk of Acute Asthma Associated with the Pediatric Use of Opioids (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - with opioid analgesics in the population. … analgesics versus alternative pharmacotherapies (non-opioid analgesics) … pharmacotherapies (non-opioid analgesics) in children with current asthma. 5. … Of these, 2,681 (28.1%) received opioid analgesics and 6,848 (71.9%) received non-opioid analgesics … Of these, 5,363 (40.1%) received opioid analgesics, and 7,996 (59.9%) received non-opioid analgesics

40. Postsurgical prescriptions for opioid naive patients and association with overdose and misuse: retrospective cohort study. | PSNet
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    October 19, 2022 - Harm from opioids is a widely recognized patient safety concern. … As with prior studies , they found increased subsequent misuse of opioids among patients who received … April 18, 2019 Wide variation and overprescription of opioids after elective surgery. … August 17, 2018 Correlation between 24-hour predischarge opioid use and amount of opioids … December 19, 2017 Prescription opioid analgesics commonly unused after surgery: a systematic