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Group Health’s Initiative To Avert Opioid Misuse And Overdose Among Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Increased opioid prescribing for chronic pain that is not due to cancer has been accompanied by large increases in abuse and overdose of prescription opioids. This paper describes how Group Health, a Seattle-based nonprofit health care system, implemented a major initiative to make opioid prescribing safer. In the initiative's first nine months, clinicians developed documented care plans for almost 6,000 patients receiving long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain. Evaluation of the initiative's effects on care processes and trends in adverse events is under way.

Source: Health Affairs

DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0759

Authors: Claire E. Trescott, Randi M. Beck, Michelle D. Seelig, Michael R. Von Korff

Institutions: Group Health Cooperative, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

Language: English

Topic: Opioid Use Disorder Treatment

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Drug Abuse