Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Access reports for community members, prescribers, patients and families, and those recovering from opioid overdose.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
This guide equips clinicians with information for treating chronic pain in adults living with a history of substance use. The guide discusses chronic pain management, including treatment with opioids. It also includes information about substance use assessments and referrals. Available at no cost from SAMSHA.
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:
Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)
Step by step process to improve pain management for medical patients in the hospital.
Iowa Healthcare Collaborative
Resources is divided into sections that can stand alone for quick reference. Addresses the real-world situations practitioners face in daily patient care (difficult conversations, non-opioid treatment interventions, acute pain treatment, tapering, chronic pain care, managing ED patients, pain control for cancer and palliative care, etc.)
Colorado Hospital Association
In 2017, CHA and its partners developed the Colorado Opioid Safety Pilot, a study that was conducted in 10 hospital emergency departments (EDs) over a six-month span with a goal of reducing the administration of opioids in those EDs by 15 percent. The cohort of 10 participating sites achieved an average 36 percent reduction in the administration of opioids during those six months, as well as a 31.4 percent increase in the administration of alternatives to opioids (ALTOs). Based on the success of the pilot, CHA has launched the Colorado ALTO Project to implement this program in all hospital EDs.
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP); Emergency Quality Network (E-QUAL)
Targeted at EDs concentrating quality efforts to improving safe opioid prescribing; Safe Prescribing Poster, Opioid Checklist, Optimizing the Treatment of Acute Pain in the ED, Alternatives to Opioids, etc.
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)
As the opioid crisis continues to affect the lives of people around the country health-systems most impacted by the crisis have taken a proactive approach in the fight. Recognizing the need for grassroots leadership to guide responsible opioid prescribing the University of Kentucky HealthCare implemented an Opioid Stewardship Program.
The Joint Commission
This 1-hour webinar featured Dr. Jeanmarie Perrone from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center & Dr. Scott Weiner from Brigham and Women’s Hospital sharing their experiences with setting up programs to encourage safe prescribing of opioids and reducing opioid-related deaths. The speakers shared pearls & lessons learned, with the idea of providing a framework for other systems to implement similar programs as we work towards solutions to the opioid addiction and overdose epidemic.
American Hospital Association (AHA)
Program Materials, Templates, Change Management Resources, Webinars, Tracking Tools, Co-Prescribing, Opioid Use Disorder, Non-Pharmacological Pain Management
American Hospital Association (AHA)
The Guide addresses six critical elements that can support users through a process of implementing a data-driven approach to an opioid stewardship program: 1) developing a leadership strategy; 2) conducting an environmental
scan of available resources, existing efforts and available data; 3) selecting measures; 4) setting goals and developing an improvement plan to drive progress on those measures; 5) creating policies and education for care teams; and 6) providing patient education and engaging patients in shared decision-making. We believe that these elements lay the foundation for driving and measuring progress in opioid stewardship.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Pain is a leading cause of disability globally. The dramatic increase in opioid prescriptions within the past decade in the United States has contributed to the opioid epidemic the country currently faces, magnifying the need for longer term solutions to treat pain. The substantial burden of pain and the ongoing opioid crisis have attracted increased attention in medical and public policy communities, resulting in a revolution in thinking about how pain is managed. This new thinking acknowledges the complexity and biopsychosocial nature of the pain experience and the need for multifaceted pain management approaches with both pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapies.
