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Accountability Program Helps Identify Opiate Prescribing Outliers, Addresses Education and Quality Needs
It stands to reason that fully understanding when and why providers under- or overprescribe opiate medications might assist in standardizing prescribing practices and also help bring the opioid epidemic to heel. However, most healthcare systems lack the tools to easily collect this information meaningfully.
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Emergency Physicians, Nurses Unite Against Workplace Violence
Campaign is designed to raise awareness about the on-the-job dangers ED personnel face daily, and to prompt action among key stakeholders and policymakers toward ensuring emergency clinicians and staff can operate in a safe environment.
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Treatment, Trauma-Informed Care Elevate Behavioral Health Management
Researchers are testing changes intended to improve the care and management of patients who present to the ED with behavioral health concerns. Providing trauma-informed care to these patients is critical to any improvement effort. Further, EDs should find ways to provide early treatment to these patients rather than just focusing on ways to transfer them elsewhere.
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Benchmarking: Required Reading
Discovering information that can be used to identify gaps in an organization’s processes to achieve a competitive advantage.
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Cannabinoids for Pain Relief Unproven for Surgical Cases
Surgery centers treating patients who have been using marijuana or cannabinoids for pain relief or nausea are raising questions about efficacy and side effects.
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Organizational Guidance on Marijuana Comes With Caveats, Cites Lack of Robust Research
Plenty of medical associations have released position statements addressing medical marijuana, but many cite the lack of research into cannabis as a healthcare product as a barrier to writing comprehensive, evidence-based guidelines.
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Workplace Cannabis Use Poses Risks, Legal Confusion, Testing Issues
Rapidly changing state marijuana laws may challenge surgery centers to write ironclad policies regarding drug testing and screening. Any decision made one day could be put in peril by new or updated regulations the next day.
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Straightforward, Neutral Approach Best Way to Screen Patients for Marijuana Use
Surgery centers in every state should screen patients as routinely for marijuana use as they screen for cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption.
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Cannabis Products Can Create Safety Risk for Surgery Patients
As more states legalize marijuana, surgery centers and anesthesiologists should learn about safety issues related to ingestion of cannabinoids.
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Snapshot of U.S. Marijuana Legalization
A brief look at what the laws are across the country and what federal legislation is under consideration.