A Multifaceted Intervention to Improve Patient Knowledge and Safe Use of Opioids: Results of the ED EMC2 Randomized Controlled Trial.

CONCLUSIONS: The study found that the EMC2 tools improved demonstrated safe dosing, but these benefits did not translate into actual use based on medication dairies. The text-messaging intervention did result in improved patient knowledge.
PMID: 31742823 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - November 18, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: McCarthy DM, Curtis LM, Courtney DM, Cameron KA, Lank PM, Kim HS, Opsasnick LA, Lyden AE, Gravenor SJ, Russell AM, Eifler MR, Hur SI, Rowland ME, Walton SM, Montague E, Kim KA, Wolf MS Tags: Acad Emerg Med Source Type: research