Clinicians & Providers
Your role in opioid stewardship
In 2019, the PENNJ-SOS Steering Committee disseminated procedure-specific prescribing guidelines to promote opioid stewardship within the collaborative. PENNJ-SOS leaders synthesized multiple prescribing recommendations – including those created by Michigan OPEN, ISQIC, the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and the City of Philadelphia – to inform consensus-based PENNJ-SOS procedure-specific discharge prescribing guidelines. Considerations included surgical approach and patient opioid exposure/naiveté.
Promoting safe opioid use with your patients begins with effective, easy-to-understand education. The patient-friendly, health-literate video and print resources on this website will help you communicate with your patients about their surgery and related pain management and opioid use. We’ve also developed helpful strategies to guide hospital implementation of these materials.
In 2019, the PENNJ-SOS Steering Committee disseminated procedure-specific prescribing guidelines to promote opioid stewardship within the collaborative. PENNJ-SOS leaders synthesized multiple prescribing recommendations – including those created by Michigan OPEN, ISQIC, the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and the City of Philadelphia – to inform consensus-based PENNJ-SOS procedure-specific discharge prescribing guidelines. Considerations included surgical approach and patient opioid exposure/naiveté.
Promoting safe opioid use with your patients begins with effective, easy-to-understand education. The patient-friendly, health-literate video and print resources on this website will help you communicate with your patients about their surgery and related pain management and opioid use. We’ve also developed helpful strategies to guide hospital implementation of these materials.