Opioid Prescribing Practices: Practical Reviews Clinical Update

Opioid Prescribing Practices is a two-part audio series examining the clinician’s role in combating an opioid epidemic that grips our country. PART 1 is Managing Opioid Therapy in High-Risk Patients ...

Opioid Prescribing Practices is a two-part audio series examining the clinician’s role in combating an opioid epidemic that grips our country. PART 1 is Managing Opioid Therapy in High-Risk Patients PART 2 is The Opioid Epidemic Upon completion of Opioid Prescribing Practices, you will be able to: • Define the terms ‘pain’ and “chronic pain.” • Provide examples of potential high-risk patients for opioid misuse. • Describe how a health care provider might assess a patient’s chronic pain and measure the outcomes after initiating treatment. • List at least five non-opioid drugs that may offer first-line therapy for non-cancer-related pain management. • Summarize the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) guidelines that pertain to proper prescribing practice for pain medications. • State whether the incidence of providers actually losing their license or having any legal action taken against them regarding opioid prescribing practices is large or small. • Describe Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and discuss their use in the prescribing of opioid medications. • And much more.Target Audience: Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Dentists, and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

---

Write the first review

Resource tags