2 Strategies to reduce risk of adverse drug events include discontinuing medications and prescribing new medications sparingly.3 QI work at initial site supported by our institution’s process improvement in action program included a mixed intervention: brief peer education, monthly peer comparison report...
Relevant search terms included opioid, opioid abuse, chronic pain management, written care agreements, urine drug testing, and multimodal therapy.Findings:Opioids exhibit a well established abuse potential and evidence supporting the efficacy of opioids in chronic pain management is limited. In addition,...
Traditionally, cardiac rehabilitation programs have been classified into 4 phases, phase I to IV, representing a progression from the hospital (phase I) to a medically supervised outpatient program (phases II) to maintenance programs that are structured for community or home-based settings (phase III...
Faced with the significant and growing severity of medical, psychiatric, and social problems among their addicted patients and given the pressures to reduce ‘unnecessary’ services in drug treatment programs, the coordinating office for drug and alcohol abuse programs (CODAAP) in Philadelphia turned ...