FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

As CDC notes in the 2022 proposed guideline, the 2016 guideline provided twelve recommendations for primary care clinicians who prescribe opioids for chronic pain in outpatient settings. The guideline is not applicable to the treatment of pain related to sickle cell disease, or palliative or end-of-life care. 2016 Guideline.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 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. ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”. Methadone should not be the first choice for an ER/LA opioid. 2022 Guideline at 3.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

You know, most, most ERs admit, you know, far fewer than 50% of their patients. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients? They go to observation and go home or just get discharged straight from the ER? For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

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