High quality interventions that reduced the overall number of frequent emergency department visitors for pain-related complaints

Background: Pain is one of the most common complaints that patients present to emergency department for; medicine providers are tasked with providing appropriate pain relief while simultaneously limiting risk personal and societal harm may result from opioid misuse. The Lakeland Regional Medical Center developed a medical management program identified frequent visitors chief complaint pain. Individualized care plans were for these patients. Summary: Generation dissemination led decrease in room visits hospital admissions. authors describe their experience quality improvement initiative identifies provides individualized goals improve patient's consistency care, through interventions eliminate prescribing opioids non-opioid alternatives.