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VA health care: progress made towards improving opioid safety, but further efforts to assess progress and reduce risk are needed : report to congressional committees.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016.
- United States.
- United States. Veterans Health Administration--Rules and practice--Evaluation.
- United States. Veterans Health Administration.
- Opioids--Safety measures.
- Opioids.
- Opioid abuse--United States--Prevention.
- Opioid abuse.
- Genre:
- Online resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ii, 39 pages)
- Other Title:
- Progress made towards improving opioid safety, but further efforts to assess progress and reduce risk are needed
- Veterans prescribed opiods
- Veterans Affairs health care: progress made towards improving opioid safety, but further efforts to assess progress and reduce risk are needed
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2018.
- Summary:
- This report examines, among other issues, (1) the extent to which VHA has met OSI goals established in 2014 and (2) the extent to which VHA providers adhere to key opioid risk mitigation strategies. GAO is making five recommendations to VHA, including that it document actions and develop measurable outcomes related to its OSI goals, ensure that providers are adhering to opioid risk mitigation strategies, and ensure that all its regional networks have implemented academic detailing programs and that all VHA medical facilities have a designated primary care pain champion, as required.
- Contents:
- Background.
- Under its OSI, VHA tracks opioid prescribing patterns, identifies prescribing outliers, and educates prescribers.
- VHA has made progress on OSI goals, but performance measurement limitations exist for some goals and certain CARA provisions have not been fully implemented.
- VHA providers do not always adhere to required opioid safety risk mitigation strategies and guideline recommendations for prescribing opioids in a safe manner.
- Conclusions.
- Recommendations for executive action.
- Agency comments.
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- "May 2018."
- "GAO-18-380."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource, PDF version; title from cover (GAO viewed February 22, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1047729699
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