Patient Safety Priorities

  • #1 Culture of Safety, Teamwork and Clinician Safety
  • #2 Clinical Deterioration
  • #3 Non-Operating Room Anesthesia
  • #4 Perioperative Brain Health
  • #5 Opioid-Related Harm
  • #6 Medication Safety
  • #7 Infectious Diseases
  • #8 Airway Management
    • APSF Patient Safety Priorities > #5 Opioid-Related Harm

    Opioid-Related Harm

    Prevention and mitigation of opioid-related harm in surgical patients
    Chair(s): Christina Hayhurst, MD; Ken Johnson, MD
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    APSF Activities

    • This issue has been addressed in 11 articles in the APSF Newsletter since 2016
    • APSF has supported one research grant on this issue in the past 5 years
    • APSF supports ongoing efforts in the U.S. Congress, Joint Commission, and regulatory agencies to promote postoperative monitoring of patients who have received opioids

     

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