This 2-page guide is designed to assist pharmacists in talking with patients and caregivers about naloxone. Continue reading
Resource Tag: Safe Prescribing
Pharmacists’ Insights into Their Role in Preventing Opioid Overdose
This 4-page issue brief explores pharmacists’ insights into their role in preventing opioid overdose. Continue reading
Think it Through: A Guide to Managing the Benefits and Risks of Medicines
This patient education brochure addresses how to safely manage the risks of prescription medications. The brochure provides tips for patients on how to reduce the risks of medication through consultation with their prescriber or pharmacist and with simple actions patients can take. Continue reading
The STOP Measure: Safe & Transparent Opioid Prescribing to Promote Patient Safety & Reduced Risk of Opioid Misuse (2019 Update)
This updated America’s Health Insurance Plans’s (AHIP) report examines how insurers use claims data to measure prescriber adherence to prescribing guidelines – the STOP measure. Continue reading
Accelerating Opioid Safety: Ambulatory Care Toolkit
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: Continue reading
Nebraska Pain Management Guidance Document: A Provider and Community Resource
The 2017 Nebraska Pain Management Guidance document was developed by an expert advisory task force consisting of actively practicing clinicians and prescribers, public health officers and senior state officials. The guidance is notable for addressing a broad range of topics including Continue reading
Tips for Talking about Opioids and Pain with Patients
Health care providers often request guidance on how to have conversations with patients about opioids, pain treatment, addiction and other topics that may be challenging. In this collection, we have gathered materials that provide support to providers as they have these difficult conversations. Continue reading
The Oregon State Drug Review: Update on Recent Guidance and Safety Alerts for Opioid Use in Non-cancer Pain
This 2019 update from the Oregon Drug Use Research & Management board provides recommendations for the use of opioids in treating non-cancer pain. The document summarizes guidelines on opioid prescribing produced by the Veterans Administration, the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and the Oregon Health Authority. Continue reading
What Happens When You Flip the Script?
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. Continue reading
Minnesota Opioid Prescribing Guidelines – 2018 First Edition
The Minnesota Department of Human Services convened a group of stakeholders to address opioid prescribing in the state through the Opioid Prescribing Improvement Project. The Opioid Prescribing Workgroup produced these 2018 guidelines on opioid prescribing for use by providers Continue reading