The Opioid Crisis: How Health Care Can Take Action. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

The Opioid Crisis: How Health Care Can Take Action. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Massachusetts Meeting/Conference
 
• Published March 2017

The Opioid Crisis: How Health Care Can Take Action.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement. March 13–14, 2017; Hyatt Regency Boston Harbor, Boston, MA.

The magnitude of patient harm from opioid use is growing. This workshop will cover how to implement changes that address the system factors that drive the prescription opioid crisis. Highlighted strategies include limiting the supply, raising awareness of the problem with prescribers, and treating patients with opioid-dependence.

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