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Assessing Adherence With Naloxone Prescription Guidelines For Chronic Pain Patients: Recommendations For Improvement, Elizabeth O'Neill
Assessing Adherence With Naloxone Prescription Guidelines For Chronic Pain Patients: Recommendations For Improvement, Elizabeth O'Neill
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Although the Vermont statute governing prescription of opioids for chronic pain states that patients taking over 90 morphine milliequivalents daily or opioids with a benzodiazepine should receive a naloxone prescription, there is no mechanism within the Chronic Opioid Protocol report at Colchester Family Medicine to assess adherence to that policy. This project sought to determine if there is a gap between patients who should receive a prescription and patients who have a prescription to see if there is a need to alter the Chronic Opioid Protocol or provide greater monitoring to ensure patient safety while on opioids for chronic pain.
Increasing Narcan Distribution In A Primary Care Setting, Charlotte Evans
Increasing Narcan Distribution In A Primary Care Setting, Charlotte Evans
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
Opioid use and overdoses are an ongoing health issue in Maine, especially in the Lewiston/Auburn metropolitan area. While Maine has a robust Narcan distribution system, it is not frequently given out in primary care settings. Though interviews and an anonymous survey, it seems the reason behind this is multifaceted, so multiple interventions were created to target both patient awareness and education and provider screening and prescription, with the goal of increasing distribution in this setting.
Naloxone Community Engagement Project, Olivia E. Domingue
Naloxone Community Engagement Project, Olivia E. Domingue
Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects
This abstract focuses on the distribution of naloxone from Milton Family Medicine, a family medicine practice in rural Vermont. By interviewing representatives involved in the distribution of naloxone throughout the state, I pinpointed ways to best advertise naloxone to the patient community in Milton, provide information around harm reduction practices and naloxone administration and simultaneously dispel stigma regarding overdose prevention.