Chronic Pain and Opioids – Part 6

A Prescription for Disaster – A Need to Educate the Injured Worker We have all been prescribed a controlled prescription drug after a dental procedure, or when we sustain some type of injury. We get the prescription filled, use a few of the pills and then store the remainder of [...]

2020-06-18T13:17:48-05:00November 14th, 2015|

Chronic Pain and Opioids – Part 5

PDMP & Evidence Based Guidelines – Designing Opioid Protocols for Case Management What is a PDMP?  Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs collect, monitor, and analyze electronically transmitted prescribing and dispensing data submitted by pharmacies and dispensing practitioners. The data is used to support states’ efforts in education, research, enforcement and abuse [...]

2020-06-18T13:15:14-05:00November 14th, 2015|

Chronic Pain and Opioids – Part 4

Focusing on functional improvement vs. “Healing the pain” Traditionally when the injured worker reports pain, the first impulse is to “heal that pain”.  It is just human nature isn’t it?  When our kids fall, we kiss their “boo boos” don’t we?  When our friends are hurting, our first impulse [...]

2020-06-18T13:15:23-05:00November 14th, 2015|

Chronic Pain and Opioids – Part 3

Objectifying that “Gut Feeling” when controlled prescription medications are prescribed for acute or chronic pain In a previous post we discussed the need to set up protocols based on best practices when case managing an injured worker prescribed a controlled prescription drug.  One of the elements to consider is utilizing standardized assessment [...]

2020-06-18T13:15:33-05:00November 14th, 2015|

Chronic Pain and Opioids – Part 2

Why is medication reconciliation so important when controlled prescription drugs are prescribed? In my last post I discussed some of the best practices a case manager should be utilizing when opioids or other controlled prescription drugs are prescribed for the injured worker.  One of those tools described was Medication [...]

2020-06-18T13:15:43-05:00November 14th, 2015|

Chronic Pain and Opioids – Part 1

Common Elements in Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain When CompAlliance developed our Opioid Protocols for use by our staff we performed research on guidelines utilized by different entities. Here is a link to one of the research sets of guidelines we reviewed. Common Elements in Guidelines for [...]

2020-06-18T13:15:53-05:00November 14th, 2015|
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