Temple Study Finds Opioid Prescribing Guideline Significantly Decreases Prescription Rates
“The impact of this type of guideline had never been studied in an acute care setting,” says Daniel del Portal, MD, FAAEM, Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Assistant Director of Clinical Operations at TUH and Jeanes Hospital, and principal investigator of the study. “We…