Medication Safety News Posts
Toolkits Support Pharmacists Central Role in Health Management
Whether swinging through the drive-through or stopping by the pharmacy counter, individuals with prescriptions for managing a chronic health issue are in regular contact with their pharmacist. Medication consumers rely on these healthcare professionals to answer...
Q&A: Improving Resident Health in Long-Term Care Facilities
Great Plains QIN and other Quality Innovation Network–Quality Improvement Organizations are working in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to reduce the use of antipsychotics in long-term care facilities and improve health outcomes...
Awáŋič’iglaka (To Take Care of One’s Own Health): Using Traditional Alternatives for Pain Management
A growing body of evidence suggests that complementary approaches help to manage some painful conditions. The Standing Rock Opioid Steering Committee hosted a pain summit in North Dakota in April designed to share positive information and alternative traditional...
Compliance Toolkit for Pain Assessment, Management and Safe Opioid Prescribing
In July 2017, the Joint Commission announced the implementation of new and revised pain assessment and management standards which would be effective January 1, 2018 for all accredited hospitals. The enhanced standards represent nearly two years of intensive research...
AHRQ-Funded Website Supports Access to Medication That Reverses Opioid Overdoses
In early April, the U.S. Surgeon General urged individuals and families at risk of opioid abuse to keep a medication on hand that reverses the effects of an overdose. This is the first surgeon general’s public health advisory in 13 years reflecting growing concern...
A Day for Prevention: Understand. Engage. Act!
Bismarck State College National Energy Center of Excellence | April 11, 2018 | Bismarck, ND “Perhaps we can turn a day for prevention into a generation for prevention.” “If we are ever going to get equity, we need to walk through truth.” ~ Dr. Donald Warne, (Speaking...
A Culture of Patient Safety
Originally published in the South Dakota Medicine Journal, April 2018 By: Stephan Schroeder, MD, CMD, CMQ Medical Director, South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care The potential for harm in medical care has been known since Hippocrates. The principle of patient...
“Pathways to Safe Opioid Use” Training Program Launched
Increased opioid prescribing has led to a growing crisis of misuse, addiction, and overdose in the United States, with prescription or illicit opioid-related overdose deaths totaling 42,249 in 2016 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....
15th Annual Nebraska Healthcare Quality Forum – Register Today!
Great Plains Quality Innovation Network - Nebraska invites you to attend the 15th annual Nebraska Healthcare Quality Forum. [symple_button url="https://greatplainsqin.org/neqfregistration/" color="blue" size="default" border_radius="3px" target="self" rel=""...
Utilizing Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Rural America
The rate of increase in opioid-related deaths in rural America has sounded the alarm calling for health interventions that address not only the drugs themselves, but counseling and behavioral therapies that provide a whole-patient approach. An evidence-based treatment...
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