Opioids
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday warned the health care community about complications that arise when pairing pain medications with intrathecal implanted pumps when the medications are not approved for use with those devices, which deliver medicine into spinal fluid.
Outpatient opioid prescriptions for children have steadily declined since 2012, driven by fewer prescriptions for hydrocodone, according to a study reported online by JAMA Pediatrics.
Nearly 2.4 million Americans are living with Hepatitis C and the amount of new infections each year is 鈥渄isturbingly high鈥 and growing.
Project SHOUT (Support for Hospital Opioid Use Treatment): Zuckerberg San Francisco General, San Francisco, CA
Held November 13, 2018
Pre-Webinar Materials: Project SHOUT: Support for Hospital Opioid Use Treatment
Overview
In May 2014, the Ohio Governor鈥檚 Office of Health Transformation awarded MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland $395,170 in grant funding to reduce lengthy hospital stays and promote improved health outcomes for opiate-dependent mothers and their newborn babies. The funding was a part of鈥
Overview
Dartmouth鈥揌itchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is New Hampshire鈥檚 only academic medical center and is headquartered on a 225-acre campus in the heart of the Upper Connecticut River Valley, in Lebanon, N.H. DHMC is New Hampshire鈥檚 only Level I trauma center, one of only three in northern New鈥
The Food and Drug Administration Nov. 2 approved a new opioid drug called Dsuvia, which will be used to manage acute pain in adults.
Held November 15
The Alliance for Recovery-Centered Addiction Health Services, of which the AHA is a member, recently announced an alternative payment model (APM) designed to provide patients a long-term, comprehensive and integrated pathway to addiction treatment and recovery.
Also in this weekly roundup of health care news: When rural hospitals close, the health implications are significant; the VA pilots behavioral health integrated model; and a small drug company tests waters of cholesterol medicine market.
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Office for Civil Rights today announced guidance and a public education campaign highlighting how federal nondiscrimination laws apply to opioid use disorder treatment and recovery services.