Telephone Follow-Up After Pediatric Emergency Department Discharge – Does It Impact the Likelihood of Return Visits?

摘要

Despite the strict regulation of opioids, themajority of individuals who develop opioid use disorder areintroduced to opioids through prescription pain medication.While emergency physicians contribute minimally to theoverall number of opioid prescriptions, they treat a highvolume of patients with painful conditions and are often atleast the initial prescriber of opioids for such patients. Thepresent quality improvement (QI) project aimed to decreasethe rate of opioids administered in the emergency department(ED) and prescribed at discharge.