The Evaluation of Medical Inpatients Who Are Admitted on Long-term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain

Outpatient guidelines can help hospitalists evaluate inpatients on long-term opioid therapy, but more work is needed to help providers make decisions for inpatients that balance effective pain treatment and opioid risk reduction.

Source: RAND Research Health and Health Care - February 13, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Hilary Mosher; Shoshana J. Herzig; Itai Danovitch; Christina Boutsicaris; Sameer Hassamal; Karl Wittnebel; Azadeh Dashti; Teryl K. Nuckols Source Type: research