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Four Tips to Be a Better Steward of Opioid Prescriptions

The opioid epidemic is being called the worst public health crisis in America. And the numbers keep rising. I can remember a time in nursing school where we were taught to treat pain as the “fifth vital sign.” We were told not to question the patient’s perception of pain but to treat accordingly as many felt that patients were often under-medicated.

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The Need for Evidence-Based Health Care

The amount of data in any given hospital or physician practice is staggering. Patient records, billing information, compliance files to name a few. And when this is aggregated into a larger group or system, the shear quantity of this data makes for a pretty difficult task of accessing specific elements of information.