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Pathways to Safer Opioid Use 08/31/16

Pathways to Safer Opioid Use is an immersive, interactive training tool that was designed using the opioid-related recommendations outlined in the National Action Plan for Adverse Drug Event Prevention (ADE Action Plan). The training uses the...

Implementation of a Medication Therapy Management Intervention in Ambulatory Care Settings: Experiences and Lessons Learned From the MyRx Pilot 08/31/16

This case study represents the collective work of the Medication Therapy Management Learning Community (MTM LC), a quality improvement initiative sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Care Innovations...

Interagency Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Pain 01/13/16

The Interagency Guideline on Prescribing Opioids for Pain offers a balanced approach to pain management that includes recommendations for using opioids when appropriate. This is an updated version of the 2010 guideline. The 2015 guideline expands...

Opioid Overdose Toolkit 01/13/16

The Opioid Overdose Toolkit provides communities and local governments with material to develop policies and practices to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. This toolkit contains resources and information for first responders,...

Improving Medication Safety in High Risk Medicare Beneficiaries Toolkit 09/04/15

This toolkit is based on experience gained in the Medication Evaluation and Drug Use Problem Identification to Improve Safety in High Risk Medicare Beneficiaries (MEDIS-MB) study. The toolkit has two goals: to describe the medication therapy...

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Events

Promoting the Spread of Health Care Innovations 04/09/13

Issues

Integrating the Role of Pharmacists in Medication Management for At-Risk Patients