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5/11/2018 Opioid Management

Penobscot Community Health Care, Bangor, ME

Interdisciplinary Controlled Substance Stewardship Committee Overview At Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC), we have developed and implemented an interdisciplinary committee with a focus on improving controlled substance stewardship which we call the Controlled Substance Stewardship (CSS) commi

5/11/2018 Opioid Management

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Prospective pharmacist review of high-risk patients treated with opioids for chronic pain at a family medicine clinic Overview The project evaluated the impact of a pharmacist’s pre-visit review of high-risk patients treated with opioids for chronic pain followed by primary care providers at a famil

5/11/2018 Opioid Management

Cone Health Greensboro, NC

Pharmacist intervention to monitor and reduce opioid use in patients with chronic non-cancer pain as part of interdisciplinary pilot monitoring program Overview In 2016, the CDC released guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain. The guidelines recommended the following actions: establi

5/11/2018 Opioid Management

Baptist Memorial Healthcare, Memphis, TN

Opioid-light initiative: A multi-modal approach to reduce opioid prescribing in the emergency department Overview Tennessee ranks second nationally in opioid-related deaths — approximately 80 percent involve prescription opioids. Due to the alarming rate of opioid use and associated overdoses in our