This guideline provides recommendations for primary care clinicians who are prescribing opioids for chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. The guideline addresses 1) when to initiate or continue opioids for chronic pain; 2) opioid selection, dosage...
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"Many of the current recommendations around opioid prescribing practices stem from expert consensus rather thanempirical research, which is urgently needed to generate and develop informed guidelines for patients with chronic cancer-related pain," said the article's lead author Penn Nursing's Salimah H...
OBJECTIVE: To provide recommendations about opioid prescribing for primary care clinicians treating adult patients with chronic pain outside of active cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. PROCESS: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated a 2014 systematic review...
Drug safety experts said the recommendations represent "common sense" prescribing. "I see this as part of a national effort to get control over an epidemic," said Dr. Bruce Psaty, a professor at the University of Washington who also advises the FDA. ...
On Monday, the CDC released its draft guidelines for opioid prescribing, but now says the recommendations will be subject to further review, which will also incorporate public comments, resulting in the delay of the release. The delay was first signaled yesterday when the CDC unexpectedly disclosed...
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However, physicians see barriers to scaling back opioid prescribing, and they resent the claim that the epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths is 'doctor driven.'
for every 69 prescriptions for high-dose opioids, the report noted. The CDC recommends that naloxone be co-prescribed with high-dose opioids, due to the risk of overdose for patients receiving those prescriptions. Insome states, co-prescribing is mandated under certain situations, though the ...
The CDC’s previous 2016 guidelines for prescribing opioids emphasized that non-opioid treatments were preferred methods to manage chronic pain, and opioids should be used only when the benefits outweigh the risks. Those recommendations called on prescribers to limit initial prescriptions to three days...