could this applied to denying pain management to a pt in an emergency dept ?

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

  https://www.lac.org/assets/files/LAC-Report-Final-7.19.21.pdf Today the Legal Action Center (LAC) released a report examining the legal obligations of hospitals to provide evidence-based and lifesaving care to emergency department patients with substance use disorders – specifically SUD diagnosis, administration of agonist medications, outpatient treatment referral facilitation and naloxone distribution or prescription. As the primary point of access to […]

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When a complex problem doesn’t have a simple solution -easiest thing to do is DO NOTHING ?

Posted on July 20, 2021 by Pharmaciststeve

Revising the Opioid Guidelines https://daily-remedy.com/revising-the-opioid-guidelines/ Nuance – if there is a single word that could describe the essence of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) meeting last week which discussed revising the 2016 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) opioid prescribing guidelines – this would be it. So if nuance is […]

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