CDC has released the 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain, which updates and replaces the 2016 guideline. We are in the process of updating available resources and materials. Please refer to the 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for current CDC recommendations and implementation strategies.
Quality Improvement (QI) and Care Coordination: Implementation from the Field
As part of its efforts to respond to the opioid overdose crisis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain (Guideline) to assist clinicians in offering safer, more effective pain treatment for patients. To encourage uptake and use of the evidence-based Guideline, CDC worked with external partners to establish a quality improvement (QI) collaborative of a diverse set of healthcare systems, support them in implementing recommendations from the 2016 Guideline, and produce associated QI measures to monitor changes in system-level opioid prescribing practices over time. The first Collaborative began in 2018 with a cohort of four systems, with a second cohort of five health systems joining in April 2019.
St. Mary’s/Clearwater Valley Health serves a 13-county region from Orofino, Idaho to Cottonwood, Idaho and includes eight established medical clinics alongside St. Mary’s Hospital and Clearwater Valley Hospital that host 45,000 patient visits annually.
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Montefiore Medical Center is an academic health system located in the Bronx, New York City and is comprised of four hospitals and 21 primary clinics with over 830,000 patient visits annually.
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Stormont Vail Health, located in the north-central part of Topeka, Kansas, is a 586-bed acute care center that provides inpatient and outpatient care, as well as a variety of community outreach services.
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Owensboro Health serves nearly 500,000 people in western Kentucky and southern Indiana and provides regional access to patients with three hospitals that house more than 30 specialties.
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Atrius Health delivers connected care for more than 745,000 adult and pediatric patients at over 30 medical practice locations in eastern Massachusetts.
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The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) includes six hospitals, more than 30 clinics, and over 200 telehealth sites across the state and is the only academic medical center in the state.
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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pinnacle (UPMC Pinnacle) includes seven acute care hospitals, over 160 outpatient clinics and ancillary facilities, more than 2,900 physicians and allied health professionals on its medical staff, and approximately 11,000 employees serving multiple counties in Pennsylvania.
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ETSU College of Nursing is the largest nursing program in Tennessee, with over 1500 nursing students in undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. The College of Nursing, along with the Center for Community Outreach at ETSU, operate the Nurse Family Partnership program in nine counties in northeast Tennessee. Seven clinics are run by nurse practitioners (NPs) under the supervision of a physician as mandated by the Tennessee State Nurse Practice Act.
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University of Utah Health (UUHealth) is the only academic medical center in Utah and the Mountain West. The system provides patient care for the people of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, western Colorado, and much of Nevada. UUHealth includes more than 1,400 board-certified physicians and more than 5,000 health care professionals who staff four hospitals and 12 community clinics.
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