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Single-center report details hospital initiatives for safe opioid use following a Joint Commission sentinel event alert.
Describes a single hospital's initiatives to improve the safety of opioid administration in hospitalized patients.
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Offers practical examples for opioid safety; hypothesis-generating and leaves open generalizability and outcomes.
Surprise et al. (2015) studied Pain management and opioid use. Initiatives to encourage safe opioid use was evaluated. This article describes one hospital's initiatives to provide opioids safely in response to a Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert regarding opioid-related adverse events.
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