Emergency Department Prescription Opioids as an Initial Exposure Preceding Addiction

Prescription History of Emergency Department Patients Prescribed Opioids

INTRODUCTION To use Colorado's prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) to describe the recent opioid prescription history of patients discharged from our emergency department (ED) with a prescription for opioid pain medications. METHODS Retrospective cohort study of 300 adult ED patients who received an opioid prescription. We abstracted prescription histories for the six months prior to ...

The Changing Use of Intravenous Opioids in an Emergency Department

INTRODUCTION Government agencies are increasingly emphasizing opioid safety in hospitals. In 2012, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) started a sentinel event program, the "Safe Use of Opioids in Hospitals." We sought to determine if opioid use patterns in our emergency department (ED) changed from 2011, before the program began, to 2013, after start of th...

Integrating an Emergency Department with a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program

Emergency department discharge prescription interventions by emergency medicine pharmacists.

STUDY OBJECTIVE We determine the rate and details of interventions associated with emergency medicine pharmacist review of discharge prescriptions for patients discharged from the emergency department (ED). Additionally, we evaluate care providers' satisfaction with such services provided by emergency medicine pharmacists. METHODS This was a prospective observational study in the ED of an aca...

Intravenous opioids for severe acute pain in the emergency department.

OBJECTIVE To review clinical trials of intravenous opioids for severe acute pain in the emergency department (ED) and to provide an approach for optimization of therapy. DATA SOURCES Articles were identified through a search of Ovid/MEDLINE (1948-August 2010), PubMed (1950-August 2010), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (1991-August 2010), and Google Scholar (1900-August 2010). T...