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Framing Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Acute Pain: Developing the Evidence

12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: National Academies Press (NAP). Published: 12/2019. This 230-page report develops a framework to evaluate existing clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids for acute pain indications, recommends indications for which new evidence-based guidelines should be developed, and recommends a future research agenda to inform and enable specialty organizations to develop and disseminate evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids to treat acute pain to help meet the challenge of the opioid overdose epidemic. (Text)