Responding to growing concern about widespread over prescription opioids, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has just released a new guidance and other tools the help guide physicians and other prescribers to determine when and how to prescribe opioids to patients.
The lengthy new guidance and support of tools for clinicians for use and prescribing of opioids for their patients available at http://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/prescribing/resources.html include:
- Detailed new guidelines
- “Clinical Tools,” which essentially consist of digested summaries of the detailed guidance and a quick reference checklists; and
- “Factsheets” for patients.
As irregularities and other improprieties in the prescription and management of painkillers and other controlled substances are a leading basis of serious discipline of physicians and other clinicians, physicians and other clinicians, clinics and hospitals, pharmacies in pharmacists and other healthcare providers involved in prescribing or supervising patients using or contemplating the use of opioids will want to review and incorporate these guidelines into their practices as soon as possible.
Health plan and other pay yours and the pharmacy benefit manager’s responsible for overseeing and evaluating prescriptions also likely will benefit from reviewing these materials and incorporating them into their practices as soon as possible. Beyond the clinical use of these materials both health plans and healthcare providers likely will want to incorporate or use the fact sheets as communication tools for patients and their families to help educate patients about the proper use, misuse, risks and other relevant information about opioid prescriptions.
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