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January 01, 2025 - Homish Year: 2018 Publication Place: Netherlands Topic(s): Opioids & Substance Use
See topic collection … Visser Year: 2023 Topic(s): Opioids & Substance Use
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Reference Links: View … Whelan Year: 2024 Topic(s): Opioids & Substance Use
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, Healthcare Disparities … Marsch Year: 2014 Topic(s): Opioids & Substance Use
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Export Citation: Download … O Donovan Year: 2022 Topic(s): Education & Workforce
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, Opioids & Substance
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-veterans-health-administration-mandate-case-review-patients-opioid-prescriptions
May 18, 2022 - Patients whose opioids were discontinued after case review showed even higher odds of mortality. … Association of dose tapering with overdose or mental health crisis among patients prescribed long-term opioids … An electronic intervention to improve safety for pain patients co-prescribed chronic opioids … April 7, 2019
Association between concurrent use of prescription opioids and benzodiazepines
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-opioid-administration-intensive-care-unit-and-subsequent-use-opioid-naive-patients
April 06, 2022 - Prescribing opioids to opioid-naïve patients after hospital discharge may lead to chronic use . … evaluated long-term opioid use among patients admitted directly to the ICU and who received intravenous opioids … View More
Related Resources
Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/mhs4-opioid-stewardship-protocol.pdf
July 01, 2023 - What patient safety measures or indicators have been used to examine the harms associated
with opioids … practices that have been used to prevent or
mitigate the harms associated with prescribed or ordered opioids … However, opioids also carry well known risks,
including for overdose, misuse, and opioid use disorder … The updated CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain provides
guidelines for … CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain -
United States, 2022.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45979/psn-pdf
April 05, 2017 - issue/healthcare-system-wide-implementation-opioid-safety-guideline-
recommendations-case-urine-drug
Opioids … from 2010 to 2013, the risk of suicide and overdose events among VA patients receiving
prescription opioids … opioid-prescribing-after-nonfatal-overdose-and-association-repeated-overdose-cohort-study
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cdc-guideline-prescribing-opioids-chronic-pain-united-states … -2016
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-prescribing-opioids-medicare-beneficiaries
https://psnet.ahrq.gov
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45959/psn-pdf
June 29, 2017 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/impact-opioid-safety-initiative-opioid-related-prescribing-veterans
Opioids … intervention reduced two unsafe prescribing practices: high-dose opioid prescriptions and
concurrent use of opioids … 2011-2015
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/mandatory-provider-review-and-pain-clinic-laws-reduce-amounts-opioids-prescribed-and-overdose … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cdc-guideline-prescribing-opioids-chronic-pain-united-states-2016
https
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46820/psn-pdf
August 20, 2018 - issue/postsurgical-prescriptions-opioid-naive-patients-and-association-overdose-
and-misuse
Harm from opioids … investigators examined the effect of postoperative opioid prescribing in patients who had never received
opioids … As with prior studies, they found increased subsequent misuse of opioids among patients
who received … patient-safety-and-opioid-medications
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/wide-variation-and-overprescription-opioids-after-elective-surgery
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/peripheral-nerve-blocks-final-exec-sum.pdf
August 01, 2025 - in
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Executive Summary
Main Points
Background and Purpose
Opioids … We extracted sample/study characteristics
and outcomes (e.g. pain, total and rescue opioids, adverse … In head-to-head comparisons between
ESPB and CWBs, no difference was seen in pain scores, opioids, or … Opioids Prescribed After Low-Risk Surgical
Procedures in the United States, 2004-2012. … In-hospital use of opioids increases rate of coded
postoperative paralytic ileus.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/loss-trust-and-missed-diagnosis
October 31, 2023 - Describe evidence-based first line treatments for low back pain and assess the appropriate role of opioid … 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 improvement … Stigma associated with opioid analgesics can contribute to diagnostic errors.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47526/psn-pdf
January 16, 2019 - US national trends in pediatric deaths from prescription
and illicit opioids, 1999–2016. … US National Trends in Pediatric Deaths From Prescription and
Illicit Opioids, 1999-2016. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/us-national-trends-pediatric-deaths-prescription-and-illicit-opioids-1999 … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/us-national-trends-pediatric-deaths-prescription-and-illicit-opioids-1999
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46119/psn-pdf
August 15, 2018 - Recent studies have shown that opioids are frequently prescribed in situations where
there is little … Investigators found that
patients with more severe injuries were more likely to be prescribed opioids … , focusing primarily
on reducing opioid use for chronic noncancer pain (where there is no evidence opioids … are beneficial) while
not denying opioids to those in acute pain from trauma or other reasons.
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/related_files/topic-brief3-SUD.pdf
April 01, 2021 - analgesics.30 In patients on higher
doses of buprenorphine, continuing the buprenorphine but decreasing … studies40,41 in the review reported that
patients taking buprenorphine were effectively treated for pain with opioid … analgesics
while continuing buprenorphine … Use and misuse of opioids in chronic pain. … Opioid analgesics play an essential role in treating pain, and pain management in the context
of the
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/topic-brief3-SUD.pdf
April 01, 2021 - analgesics.30 In patients on higher
doses of buprenorphine, continuing the buprenorphine but decreasing … studies40,41 in the review reported that
patients taking buprenorphine were effectively treated for pain with opioid … analgesics
while continuing buprenorphine … Use and misuse of opioids in chronic pain. … Opioid analgesics play an essential role in treating pain, and pain management in the context
of the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/74075/psn-pdf
November 17, 2021 - cdc-guideline-opioid-prescribing-associated-reduced-dispensing-certain-
patients-chronic-pain
Misuse of prescription opioids … release of the 2016 guidelines was associated with reductions in the percentage of
patients receiving opioids … perspective/opioid-overdose-patient-safety-problem
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cdc-guideline-prescribing-opioids-chronic-pain-united-states
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47694/psn-pdf
February 06, 2019 - Little is known as to the
extent to which direct-to-provider marketing of opioids by pharmaceutical … companies influences physician
prescribing and patient mortality related to overdose from prescription opioids … Further analysis revealed that marketing
to providers was associated with increased prescribing of opioids … opioid-prescribing-decreases-after-learning-patients-fatal-overdose
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/cdc-guideline-prescribing-opioids-chronic-pain-united-states
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47134/psn-pdf
March 04, 2019 - Implementation of the new
regulation was associated with an unexpected increase in the amount of opioids … prescription refill rates decreased, overall there was no significant difference in the total amount of
opioids … patient-safety-and-opioid-medications
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/wide-variation-and-overprescription-opioids-after-elective-surgery … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/wide-variation-and-overprescription-opioids-after-elective-surgery
https
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pso.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/oig-list-long-term-care-hospitals-2019.pdf
January 01, 2019 - hospital for treatment
• Aspiration pneumonitis/pneumonia with inadequate preventive care
• Cascade with opioids … pain and anti-anxiety medication (opioid and benzodiazepine [diazepam])
• Mental status changes due to opioid … analgesics (intravenous hydromorphone)
• Somnolence due to anti-anxiety medications (lorazepam and clonazepam … frequent falls resulting in back pain
• Cascade with oversedation and hypotension while on multiple opioids … alprazolam) medication
• Somnolence while on anti-anxiety medication (alprazolam)
• Somnolence while on opioids
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/2018qdr-final-es.pdf
September 01, 2019 - Hospital Stays Involving Opioids
Suicide Deaths
Trends in Healthy Living
Importance of Healthy … Financial Barriers to Medical Care
Adolescent Vaccination
Emergency Department Visits Involving Opioids … Hospital Inpatient Stays Involving Opioids
Disparities by Insurance Status
Largest Disparities … Mortality
Overdose Deaths Involving Any Opioid
Overdose Deaths Involving Natural and Semisynthetic Opioids … and Overdose Deaths Involving Synthetic Opioids Other Than Methadone
Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
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effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/cer-232-breathlessness-cancer-comments.pdf
November 19, 2020 - Some were using opioids for treatment (e.g. … of opioids on dyspnea. … Opioids are similar
enough pharmacologically that we have combined the
different types of opioids together … “high dose and low dose opioids”. … the use of opioids,
and in particular systemic opioids in the relief of
dyspnea in cancer patients
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/no-shortcuts-safer-opioid-prescribing
March 30, 2016 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
CDC guideline for prescribing opioids … private Insurance, 2017
June 10, 2020
CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids … 1, 2018
Mandatory provider review and pain clinic laws reduce the amounts of opioids … and Quality
April 26, 2023
CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids