National Trends in Prescription Opioid Risk Mitigation Practices: Implications for Prescriber Education.

CONCLUSIONS: Prescribers report low levels of employing five opioid risk mitigation practices for all patients prescribed opioids before attending a safer opioid prescribing training. Policy Implications. Safer opioid prescribing education should transition from knowledge acquisition toward universal implementation of opioid risk mitigation practices. PMID: 30789651 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30789651?dopt=Abstract

Source: Pain Physician - February 21, 2019 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Alford DP, Lazure P, Murray S, Hardesty I, Krause JR, White JL Tags: Pain Med Source Type: research