Modifying emergency department electronic prescribing for outpatient opioid analgesia.

Grace D Schwartz Andrew 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