Opioid Prescribing: Where Should Academic Emergency Departments Focus Their Efforts?

Should Academic Emergency Departments Collaborate in Pharmaceutical Industry-Sponsored Research?

Historically, academic centers have been the venue for conducting important clinical trials. Teams of welltrained investigators functioning in well controlled settings have set the standard for rigorous scientific design and data interpretation in clinical trials. Institutional review boards have contributed to research subject safety and minimization of scientific misconduct. This system has b...

Where to focus efforts to improve overall ratings of care and willingness to return: the case of Tuscan emergency departments.

OBJECTIVES Both regression and optimization models were used to identify an efficient combination of aspects of care (e.g., comfort of waiting room) necessary to improve global emergency department (ED) patient satisfaction. The approach, based on patient survey data, tends to favor aspects of care with large regression coefficients and those whose current performance is low, because improvemen...

Should CPD for opioid prescribing be mandatory?

Dear Colleagues, By the time this issue of Canadian Family Physician is published, we will have celebrated Family Medicine Forum’s 15th year; those at the Annual Meeting of Members will have decided on whether to support a proposal for a smaller, skills-based board; and your Board of Directors will have considered the Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada’s (FMRAC’s) request to...

Trends in opioid prescribing by race/ethnicity for patients seeking care in US emergency departments.

CONTEXT National quality improvement initiatives implemented in the late 1990s were followed by substantial increases in opioid prescribing in the United States, but it is unknown whether opioid prescribing for treatment of pain in the emergency department has increased and whether differences in opioid prescribing by race/ethnicity have decreased. OBJECTIVES To determine whether opioid presc...

Environmental Contamination of Salmonella Enterica: Where Should We Focus Our Efforts?