FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Houck — On November 4th, CDC issued its revised guideline on prescribing opioids for pain as an expansion and update of its 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline. We blogged on the 2016 guideline here in March 2016, and the proposed guideline here on March 18th). ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”.

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Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual 52

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Primary outcome was quality of life. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. No difference in their primary outcome.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

” I take care of a lot of patients where I’m like, “Gosh, this person needs a geriatrician, but they’re 52.” So they need mainstream healthcare, and they need housing support. But nothing in healthcare. They didn’t go to the psych ER again. We basically met them. This is awesome, right?

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Mental Health IT Community Individual 123