pain management
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Strategy
Patients Struggle to Find Prescription Opioids After NY Tax Drives Out SuppliersPain patients in New York have lost access to vital medicine since July 2019, when the state implemented an excise...
Clinical Care
Patients Want A 'Good Death' At Home, But Hospice Care Can Badly Strain FamiliesWhen it comes to where we die, the U.S. has reached a tipping point. Home is now the most common...
Clinical Care
Effort To Control Opioids In An ER Leaves Some Sickle Cell Patients In PainPatients say the diluted medicine doesn't give the same pain relief as a direct injection.
Clinical Care
Pleasant Providers Lessen Patient PainSurvey links empathetic clinicians and higher patient pain management, satisfaction scores.
Clinical Care
Surgeons' Opioid-Prescribing Habits Hard To KickA new data analysis shows that even as the CDC issued warnings, surgeons handed out many times the number of...
Clinical Care
Adopt This Program to Treat Pediatric Chronic Pain Without OpioidsIn this inpatient program, patients are weaned off opioid medications while participating in a wide range of therapy and coping...
Don't Just Blame Drug Companies for the Opioid Crisis
Expert says the healthcare system 'left an opening for industry, and they took the opening.'
Strategy
Sackler Embraced Plan to Conceal OxyContin's Strength From Doctors, Sealed Testimony ShowsAs OxyContin addiction spurred a national nightmare, a member of the family that has reaped billions of dollars from the...
Clinical Care
More States Say Doctors Must Offer Overdose Reversal Drug Along With OpioidsSuch co-prescribing mandates are emerging as the latest tactic in a war against an epidemic that has claimed hundreds of...
Clinical Care
How a Children's Hospital Minimized Needle PainIn pediatric settings, care bundles for needle procedures such as lidocaine administration and comfort positioning can significantly reduce pain.
Clinical Care
Chronic Pain Surgery: Too Risky, Too CostlyWith high costs, risks of adverse events, and scant evidence of effectiveness, surgery for chronic pain is a prime example...
Nursing
Nurses' Essential Oils Initiative Reduces Time to Intervention by 26 MinutesA nurse-driven project assessed how essential oils affected patients with nausea and vomiting.