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

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According to the CDC, the proposed guideline is a clinical tool meant “to improve communication between clinicians and patients, empowering them to make more informed, person-centered decisions related to pain care together.” ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”. Methodology. Recommendation 4. .

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

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The recommendations do not apply to inpatient hospital care, in the emergency department or other observed settings. 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. Recommendation 10. Recommendation 11.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home. They went down comparative to the chain, the diminution of the area under the curb of hospital base. Eric: Okay.

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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. Just really powerful.