The National Quality Forum released a new, comprehensive guide to help frontline providers more safely and effectively manage patient and resident pain. The National Quality Forum’s National Quality Partners Playbook™: Opioid Stewardship provides essential guidance for healthcare organizations and clinicians across care settings. The Playbook includes situational examples, identifies barriers and solutions, and provides resources to help providers better assess, diagnose and treat pain using patient-centered strategies that may or may not include medications. You can review a summary of the guide or purchase the full version for $150.
The National Quality Forum will host a webinar on opioid stewardship on Thursday, March 29 from 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. The webinar will highlight how healthcare organizations can take concrete steps to drive effective and sustainable pain management and opioid stewardship, including authentic engagement of patients and family caregivers. Register today.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan, membership-based organization that works to catalyze improvements in healthcare.
