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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

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Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”. 7,838 (Feb. Recommendation 10.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

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CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. When starting opioid therapy for acute, subacute, or chronic pain, clinicians should prescribe immediate-release opioids instead of extended-release/long-acting (“ER/LA”) opioids. Methadone should not be the first choice for an ER/LA opioid.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

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It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? And they’re like, now we want them out of the ER, but they won’t leave.

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