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Modifying emergency department electronic prescribing for outpatient opioid analgesia.

Grace D SchwartzAndrew M HardingSíne R DonaldsonShaun Lawrence Greene
Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2018)
Modification of an ED electronic prescribing system reduced overall quantities of opioid analgesics supplied and subsequently stored in the community but did not change the proportion of patients (>50%) who reported using half or less of their prescribed opioid medication.
Keyphrases
  • pain management
  • emergency department
  • chronic pain
  • adverse drug
  • primary care
  • healthcare
  • mental health
  • postoperative pain