Patients & Caregivers

Face COVID: How to Respond Effectively to the Corona Crisis

Source: Dr. Russ Harris

This 12-page guide assists patients with coping during the COVID-19 pandemic from Dr. Russ Harris. The guide draws upon acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) principles to help people FACE COVID by:

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Covid-19 Health Literacy Project

Source: Harvard Medical School, Harvard Health Publishing

The Covid-19 Health Literacy Project of Harvard Medical School published Covid-19 fact sheets in 30+ languages.

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CIN Toolkit: Three Strategies to Help Primary Care Teams Treat Substance Use Disorders

Source: California Improvement Network

This toolkit provides guidance to primary care teams on how to confidently and successfully provide substance use disorder (SUD) services to patients in their organizations. Developed by the California Improvement Network and California Quality Collaborative, the toolkit focuses on 3 strategies primary care practices can use to improve their delivery of SUD services:

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Accelerating Opioid Safety: Ambulatory Care Toolkit

Source: California Quality Collaborative

This 2018 toolkit from the California Quality Collaborative and Smart Care California provides step-by-step guidance for provider organizations to change provider behavior and culture around opioids. The toolkit is organized around 4 key strategies:

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What Happens When You Flip the Script?

Source: Minnesota Department of Human Services

This 4 minute video from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign features interviews with a physician and patient about how the decision to change the patient’s opioid prescription improved the patient’s quality of life and the provider’s relationship to his patients and his practice.

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Flip the Script: Discussion Guide for Non-Prescribers

Source: Minnesota Department of Human Services

A 4 page guide for non-prescribers about having difficult conversations with patients about pain management and opioids from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign. This guide provides information about the risks of long-term opioid therapy and provides information about understanding acute, post-acute and chronic pain. The guide provides talking points and specific language health care providers can use when talking to their patients and preparing patients to continue the discussion with their prescribing provider.

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Flip the Script: Discussion Guide

Source: Minnesota Department of Human Services

This 4 page guide from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign centers on health care providers conducting difficult conversations with patients around opioids. This guide provides information about the risks of long-term opioid therapy and provides information about understanding acute, post-acute and chronic pain. It also outlines talking points and specific language health care providers can use when talking to their patients.

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Flip the Script: Difficult Conversations

Source: Minnesota Department of Human Services

This 4 page guide from Minnesota’s Flip the Script campaign centers on health care providers and conducting difficult conversations with patients around opioids. The guide covers topics such as tapering opioid dose, pain relief, emerging behavioral health conditions, and concerns about the addiction risk of using opioids and includes sample language providers can use when talking to patients.

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Expanding Access to Burprenorphine in Primary Care Practices

Source: California Health Care Foundation

A one and a half hour webinar on best practices in expanding access to buprenorphine in primary care practices from the California Health Care Foundation. Funding Source:  California Health Care Foundation

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