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Opioid Overuse in Inpatients Rises 150 Percent in the Last Two Decades: Have You Given In?

Published on Fri Oct 10, 2014

Know the facts and break the fall that “doctor shopping” has wrought How compliant are you in monitoring your patients’ opioid use? Not keeping tabs on this could put you in line for some unwelcome scrutiny.  A statistical brief from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) published Aug. 12 presents startling facts that every hospital needs to know. [...]
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