Opioid series highlights new protocols to reduce opioid use
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In an ongoing series, Healio Orthopedics highlights new programs and approaches developed by practices to help reduce opioid use in patients. More stories from this Healio Orthopedics series can be found by clicking here.
Rothman Orthopaedic Institute opioid protocol linked to reduced consumption, refill rate
In the past few years, physicians and staff at Rothman Orthopaedic Institute have begun to implement a series of preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative protocols to decrease the opioid prescribing, consumption and refill rates. Read more.
RWJBarnabas Health takes multi-pronged approach to tackle opioid epidemic, enhance pain management
RWJBarnabas Health in New Jersey provides full-time peer recovery specialists 24 hours a day at its hospitals as part of the health care system’s comprehensive efforts to address the opioid epidemic while improving how it approaches pain management. Read more.
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences aims to reduce opioid prescriptions, refills
In 2016, as the opioid epidemic in the United States was becoming more widely recognized, the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences formed a committee to identify ways to decrease its opioid prescription rates. Read more.
Opioid-minimizing, multimodal pain regimen decreased opioid exposure at UTHealth
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston implemented an opioid-minimizing, multimodal pain regimen to maximize pain relief and decrease patient exposure to opioids. Read more.
USC implements enhanced recovery after surgery program to reduce opioid prescriptions
Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California is changing its standards of pain management after surgery as part of an enhanced recovery after surgery program for all service lines. Read more.