Developing an interprofessional team to support patients prescribed long-term high-dose opioid therapy

• Published in: Journal of interprofessional care Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 320 - 324
• Main Authors: Conley, Michael P, Elmes, Abigail T, Roberts, John R, Buck, Lauren, Fantes, Thomas P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis Ltd 01.03.2023
• Subjects: Addictions; Adult; Analgesics, Opioid - adverse effects; Behavior modification; Care plans; Chronic Pain - drug therapy; Co-prescribing; Group decision making; Health education; Health facilities; Humans; Interdisciplinary aspects; Interprofessional Relations; Long term; Morphine; Multidisciplinary teams; Naloxone; Narcotics; Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; Opioids; Pain; Pain management; Patient education; Patient-centered care; Patients; Practice Patterns, Physicians; Prescribing; Retrospective Studies; Teams; team-based care; medication safety; interprofessional; community health; Chronic pain; opioids

Despite decreases in US opioid prescribing rates, daily morphine milligram equivalents (MME) prescribed per person remains three times higher than in 1999. An interprofessional team (IPT) was developed to support pain management for patients prescribed long-term high-dose opioids (HDO) in a Federall...