Opioid Abuse in Chronic Pain — Misconceptions and Mitigation Strategies | New England Journal
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Current surgical safety guidelines and checklists are generic and are not specifically tailored
to address patient issues and risk factors in surgical subspecialties. Patient safety in surgical …

Opioids are the strongest analgesics available and are crucial in the treatment of acute and
chronic pain. The line between these critical medications and how they are used beyond …

Fundamentos: La mayoría de los estudios sobre errores de medicación se centran sólo en
hallar prevalencias globales por pacientes, por fases del proceso o según un determinado …

There is a need for alternative non-opioid analgesics for the treatment of acute, chronic, and
refractory pain in the emergency department (ED). Ketamine is a fast acting N-methyl-d …

Pain is the root cause for the overwhelming majority of emergency department (ED) visits
worldwide. However, pain is often undertreated due to inappropriate analgesic dosing and …

Objective We identified the methods used and determined the roles of electronic health
records (EHRs) in detecting and assessing adverse drug events (ADEs) in the ambulatory …

Medication errors occur frequently and are a risk to patient safety. To reduce mistakes in the
medication process in emergencies, a mobile app has been developed supporting the …

Aims To summarise the effectiveness of interventions on appropriate opioid use for
noncancer pain among hospital inpatients. Methods Two reviewers independently searched …

Pain is one of the most common reasons for patients to visit the emergency department. The
ever-growing research on emergency department analgesia has challenged the current …