Resource Location: https://www.hospitalmedicine.org/clinical-topics/opioid-safety/
Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)
Provides step-by-step guidance to assist hospital teams in implementing a quality improvement program to improve patient safety and reduce opioid-related adverse events for patients receiving opioids, including:
- Instituting safer opioid prescribing practices resulting in fewer adverse events, like dangerous over sedation, respiratory depression and death
- Focusing on hospitalized patients, with essential building blocks for developing a quality improvement initiative addressing the inpatient setting
- Creating a quality improvement project team in your hospital, gaining institutional support and securing buy-in of frontline staff to ensure successful implementation
- Developing strategies for evaluating current processes, facilitating policy formation, identifying best practices and tracking progress against implementation goals
- Optimizing care transitions for patients on opioid therapy in the outpatient setting
- Exploring a customized approach to address the specific needs of your hospital