Improve Quality and Safety in Chronic Non Cancer Pain Management in the Outpatient setting by developing a system to improve the monitoring process by utilization of pain agreements and urine drug screening.

Abstract

Goal Improve utilization of pain agreements and urine drug screening by 50% in the next 1 year in patients on chronic opioids for non-cancer pain Introduction Opioid pain medications have been commonly used for chronic pain management. However there has been a rise in opioid related deaths from overdose in the recent years in parallel with a rise in opioid prescribing. In March of 2016 Center for Disease Control (CDC) released guidelines in prescribing opioids for chronic cancer pain. It is universally agreed by CDC and other …