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  1. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/844800/psn-pdf
    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

  2. Implementing What Works | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/opioids/implementing-what-works.html
    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

  3. Prescription Opioids: Medicare Needs to Expand Oversight Efforts to Reduce the Risk of Harm. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-opioids-medicare-needs-expand-oversight-efforts-reduce-risk-harm
    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.

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Opioids' Impact on Seniors | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

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    September 01, 2018 - Opioids' Impact on Seniors   Opioids' Impact on Seniors (PDF, 1.1 MB) Source:  Medical … Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Any Use and Frequent Use of Opioids among Elderly Adults in 2015-2016

  9. Are physicians safely prescribing opioids for chronic noncancer pain? A systematic review of current evidence. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/are-physicians-safely-prescribing-opioids-chronic-noncancer-pain-systematic-review-current
    November 07, 2018 - Review Are physicians safely prescribing opioids for chronic noncancer pain? … Are Physicians Safely Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Noncancer Pain? … Are Physicians Safely Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Noncancer Pain? … December 21, 2017 Prescription opioid analgesics commonly unused after surgery: a systematic … May 31, 2017 Efficacy, tolerability, and dose-dependent effects of opioid analgesics

  10. Opioid Stewardship. | PSNet

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    February 06, 2019 - September 2, 2020 Physician prescribing of opioids to patients at increased risk of overdose … June 25, 2018 Opioids and Dentistry. … February 1, 2017 Efficacy, tolerability, and dose-dependent effects of opioid analgesics

  11. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33824/psn-pdf
    January 01, 2016 - 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 … effectiveness-and-risks-long-term-opioid-therapy-chronic-pain-systematic-review-national https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/efficacy-tolerability-and-dose-dependent-effects-opioid-analgesics-low-back-pain-systematic … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/efficacy-tolerability-and-dose-dependent-effects-opioid-analgesics-low-back-pain-systematic … –2010, despite the lack of evidence regarding the benefit of using opioids in this setting.

  12. PSNet Curated Library (pdf file)

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    January 26, 2022 - 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 sedation efforts and who experienced adverse events due to opioid stacking … 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

  13. Opioid medication discontinuation and risk of adverse opioid-related health care events. | PSNet

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    November 16, 2022 - Nearly half of patients who had opioids suddenly discontinued or with short tapering lengths experienced … October 10, 2018 Assessment of potentially inappropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics … January 18, 2023 Inappropriate prescribing of opioids for patients undergoing surgery … Association of dose tapering with overdose or mental health crisis among patients prescribed long-term opioids … August 25, 2021 Assessment of potentially inappropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics

  14. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46335/psn-pdf
    December 19, 2017 - Prescription opioid analgesics commonly unused after surgery: a systematic review. … Prescription Opioid Analgesics Commonly Unused After Surgery. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-opioid-analgesics-commonly-unused-after-surgery-systematic- … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-opioid-analgesics-commonly-unused-after-surgery-systematic-review … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/prescription-opioid-analgesics-commonly-unused-after-surgery-systematic-review

  15. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33834/psn-pdf
    May 22, 2017 - More than half of overdoses stem from opioids issued by licensed prescribers. … Prescribing fewer opioids is important because there is a direct association between the volume of opioids … Number and age-adjusted rates of drug-poisoning deaths involving opioid analgesics and heroin: United … Cohort study of the impact of high-dose opioid analgesics on overdose mortality. … CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain.

  16. Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment, and overdose or suicide deaths in US veterans: observational evaluation. | PSNet

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    April 05, 2017 - Classic Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids … Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment, and overdose or … Associations between stopping prescriptions for opioids, length of opioid treatment, and overdose or … June 23, 2021 Effect of pharmacist email alerts on concurrent prescribing of opioids … June 24, 2020 Assessment of potentially inappropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics

  17. Opioid Safety | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/primer/opioid-safety
    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 … their withdrawal from prescription opioids. … Newer synthetic opioids were introduced to the market in the late 1990s and were aggressively marketed … Studies  of the epidemiology of adverse drug events in the early 2000s consistently found that opioids

  18. Opioids in Medicare Part D: Concerns About Extreme Use and Questionable Prescribing. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioids-medicare-part-d-concerns-about-extreme-use-and-questionable-prescribing
    October 29, 2008 - Book/Report Opioids in Medicare Part D: Concerns About Extreme Use and Questionable … Citation Text: Opioids in Medicare Part D: Concerns About Extreme Use and Questionable Prescribing. … Misuse of prescription opioids represents a serious patient safety issue. … outpatient measures for reduction of adverse drug events from anticoagulants, diabetes agents, and opioid … analgesics.

  19. Disposition of Comments: Technical Brief 37 Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Opioids, Opioid Misuse, and Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/tech-brief-37-opiod-use-adults-comments.pdf
    November 03, 2020 - for the shortest duration possible, and co- prescribing opioids with non-opioid analgesics, but not … analgesics are on the order of a maximum of 0.6% (Ref 2). … mortality in patients of any age who are diagnosed and treated for chronic pain with prescription opioid … analgesics, is very low. … “Cohort study of the impact of high-dose opioid analgesics on overdose mortality”.

  20. Hospital prescribing of opioids to Medicare beneficiaries. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-prescribing-opioids-medicare-beneficiaries
    December 04, 2016 - Study Hospital prescribing of opioids to Medicare beneficiaries. … Hospital Prescribing of Opioids to Medicare Beneficiaries. … Misuse of prescription opioids represents a serious patient safety issue . … Hospital Prescribing of Opioids to Medicare Beneficiaries. … June 8, 2022 Inappropriate prescribing of opioids for patients undergoing surgery.
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