Has anyone successfully instituted an automatic stop time for opioids or benzodiazepines while in-patient and is willing to share their policy or procedure? Likewise, if anyone has successfully used pharmacy to minimize discharge on these classes unnecessarily, would love to hear about it as well.
Thanks all.

For those that use Epic, how have you addressed this ISMP Best Practice?
Verify and document a patient’s opioid status (naïve versus tolerant) and type of pain (acute versus chronic) before prescribing and dispensing extended-release and long-acting opioids. Please comment on how you do this inpatient and outpatient.

Good Morning,

Our health system is looking to develop a standard opioid stewardship program across multiple hospitals. For those of you with established programs and those in the midst of implementation, anything you can share, such as tools, policies, dashboards, etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Hello,
I am a Canadian pharmacist so forgive my ignorance of Joint Commission requirements.
I understand JC has requirements for policies/education around standard interpretation of orders such as HYDROmorphone 0.5-1 mg subcut q3h prn.
Would anyone be willing to share policies/educational tools or other approaches to ensure that such orders are consistently interpreted in your organization.