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

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The proposed guideline is not “[a] replacement for clinical judgment or individualized, person-centered care” and its recommendations are not inflexible standards of patient care. ER/LA opioids should be “reserved for severe, continuous pain.”. The guideline is neither law, regulation nor policy. 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. The 2022 guideline, as with the 2016 guideline, reiterates that it does not apply to pain management related to sickle cell disease or cancer-related pain treatment, palliative care and end-of-life care.