Patient Safety & Outcomes

A majority of opioid prescriptions written in the United States are for people suffering from mood disorders like anxiety and depression, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.

Nearly 25 percent of Medicaid members filled a prescription for opioid painkillers in 2015, and nearly one-third of these patients took opioids for more than 30 days, according to a report from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts.

Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals and the Massachusetts Health and Hospitals Association launched a pain stewardship program to increase the use of multimodal analgesia for acute pain management, according to a press release issued Wednesday.

The rate of opioid use among rheumatoid arthritis patients has declined since 2010, according to a study published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatology.

While many hospitals leaders are working to adjust pain management protocols to reduce the number opioid medications prescribed at their facilities, leaders at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colo., have already had great success reducing opioid prescriptions at its facility…

A patient stabbed a nurse with a knife in Southbridge, Mass.-based Harrington Hospital's emergency department Wednesday, according to WCVB.

Massachusetts Health and Human Services officials ordered Harrisburg, Pa.-based Hillcrest Women's Medical Center to suspend services after an inspection revealed multiple deficiencies and violations, according to a PennLive report.

Hospitals that conduct both basic and clinical research tend to be more efficient in terms of length of patient stays, according to a study published in the journal Research Policy.

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As the baby boomer generation ages, hospitals are beginning to see more older patients in their emergency departments — according to CDC data cited by Kaiser Health News, 1 in 6 visits to the ED were made by an elderly…