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A podcast focusing on health care quality, experience and affordability trends and solutions, offering some first steps toward improving quality challenges in your organization. Dr. Timothy Morgenthaler, M.D. and co-host Sheri Nemec, M.S. invite Mayo Clinic experts to share insights about innovative work to drive excellence in quality, safety, experience, and affordability, and to explore some of the biggest challenges in healthcare quality. Tune in to learn more about #MayoKeyintoquality
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Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Thursday Sep 08, 2022
Host: Timothy Morgenthaler, MD @DrTimMorg
Guests: Helena Gazelka M.D., Consultant, Anesthesia-Pain Clinic, Mayo Clinic
Benjamin Lai, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., Consultant, Family Medicine, Mayo Clinic @BenjaminLaiMD
Drug overdose deaths have skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the overdoses occur in people who were originally prescribed medications such as pain medications for acceptable clinical indications. A number of studies indicate that of those who began abusing opioids, a large number reported that their first opioid was from a prescription. Opioid abuse and addiction has become a crisis in the US and the need for standardized practices for prescribing is more important now than ever to avoid the terrible consequences of addiction. This podcast will share what Mayo Clinic is doing to reduce risks to patients, support physicians and standardize prescribing practices through an Opioid Stewardship program.
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