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The Changing Use of Intravenous Opioids in an Emergency Department

INTRODUCTION: Government agencies are increasingly emphasizing opioid safety in hospitals. In 2012, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) started a sentinel event program, the “Safe Use of Opioids in Hospitals.” We sought to determine if opioid use patterns in our...

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Autores principales: Sutter, Mark E., Wintemute, Garen J., Clarke, Samuel O., Roche, Bailey M., Chenoweth, James A., Gutierrez, Rory, Albertson, Timothy E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703147/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26759658
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2015.10.28454