Search results for "Opioids"
Where's your niche?
Academic hospitalists explain how to build a fulfilling career by focusing on a small, specific area of education or research.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/17/wheres-your-niche.htm
17 Apr 2024
Few internal medicine residency programs provide clinical opioid-related training
A 2019 survey of members of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine found that while 82% of programs required some training in safe opioid prescribing and opioid use disorder treatment, few programs required clinical experiences.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/11/10/4.htm
10 Nov 2021
Genetic test for opioid disorder risk approved
The new test is to be used prior to patients' first exposure to oral opioids for the treatment of acute pain. Other recent FDA actions include a recall of overly potent IV drugs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/07/genetic-test-for-opioid-disorder-risk-approved.htm
7 Feb 2024
Prescription of opioids at hospital discharge may vary by race/ethnicity
A single-center, retrospective analysis of patients who received opioids in the last 24 hours of hospitalization found that Black patients were less likely than White or Asian patients to be prescribed opioids at discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/09/22/3.htm
22 Sep 2021
CDC guideline on opioid prescribing linked with worse sickle cell disease outcomes
Opioid dispensing rates decreased and hospitalizations for pain increased among patients with sickle cell disease following the release of a 2016 CDC guideline on opioid prescribing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/03/20/cdc-guideline-on-opioid-prescribing-linked-with-worse-sickle-cell-disease-outcomes.htm
20 Mar 2024
Opioid agonist therapy infrequently prescribed during hospitalization for veterans with opioid use disorder
About 15% of inpatients with opioid use disorder received methadone or buprenorphine in the hospital, and the vast majority of patients who were not on opioid agonist therapy prior to admission did not receive it during hospitalization.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/04/22/4.htm
22 Apr 2020
Team up to treat opioid addiction
Hospitalists can improve care even without the expertise of an addiction medicine consult service.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/team-up-to-treat-opioid-addiction.htm
15 Sep 2021
Opioid exposure linked to increased risk of delirium in critically ill adults
A Dutch study found that opioid use in the ICU increased the daily risk of delirium by 45% in a dose-dependent manner and that this increased risk was independent of the degree of pain present.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/21/5.htm
21 Apr 2021
April 2018
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/04/
New opioid use as an inpatient associated with continued use 90 days, 1 year later
Almost half of opioid-naïve patients who were admitted to the hospital received opioids during their stay, according to an analysis of 2010 to 2014 data from several Pennsylvania hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/06/19/2.htm
19 Jun 2019