Mountain Pacific Quality Health created the materials in this handout to provide guidance for any emergency level.
The Healthy Living blog is a series of articles created by Mountain Pacific Quality Health (MPQH) featuring a wide variety of health and health care issues to empower patients and their families, giving them the information, education and expert insight, they need to become an active participant in our ever-changing health care climate.
Listen to this webinar recording from the TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization to learn about strategies to address opioid misuse within the elderly population using the Age-Friendly Health System framework.
The Overdose Response Strategy is a partnership between public health and law enforcement created to help local communities reduce drug overdoses and save lives by sharing timely data and evidence-based strategies. In this recorded session, we will review early warning signs and prevention strategies to help make our communities and individuals healthier and safer. Law enforcement also provides a high-level overview of the data that is available and useful within these partnerships.
A presentation, and webinar, on the treatment of chronic pain with buprenorphine. Objectives of this presentation will be to:
Opioid-related adverse events are a critical patient safety issue with added attention to preventing overuse. Health Quality Innovators (HQI) created a summary of resources, geared toward patients and caregivers, to support safe education.
In efforts to encourage people first language, Telligen has created an easy reference that can be kept on a badge reel or in your wallet.
This tool is a beneficiary-focused word search puzzle related to opioid awareness that can be handed out at health fairs, in senior centers, physician offices, etc.
A recent study found that adverse drug events are the most common adverse events, and as many as 25% of those adverse drug events have been found to be preventable (Bates et al., 2023).
Health Quality Innovators (HQI) created the Opioid Adverse Drug Event Review Tool to document next steps, or actions to be taken after an investigation or analysis of the event (such as sharing findings with appropriate staff or committees, or policy changes).
