Use with the Opioid and Pain Management Best Practice Assessment and the Quality Improvement and Care Coordination: Implementing the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain document.
The Opioid and Pain Management Best Practice Assessment Aggregate Results Dashboard shows baseline and quarterly results aggregated by all care settings, hospital, nursing home, home healthcare and primary care.
For questions or additional information about this Dashboard, please email Anne Myrka, RPh, MAT, amyrka@ipro.org .
The Opioid and Pain Management Best Practice Assessment was adapted from the CDC’s document: Quality Improvement and Care Coordination: Implementing the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. Our assessment contains 22 questions within 12 best practice recommendation areas with a Likert scale response range of whether the best practice is performed Very Frequently, Frequently, Occasionally, Rarely or Never. It is used with hospitals, nursing homes, home healthcare services, and primary care practices and is deployed quarterly after the initial response for serial assessment of improvement.
Use with Quality Improvement and Care Coordination: Implementing the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain document and the Opioid and Pain Management Best Practice Aggregate Results Dashboard.
A list of suggested pain management items that should be communicated to the next provider upon discharge. A way to engage a care transition community, identify communication elements needed for electronic health record modification, or provide an additional tool to improve med reconciliation.
Read the article “Pain management-related assessment and communication across the care continuum: Consensus of the opioid task force of the island peer review organization pain management coalition” published in the Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
This is designed for use in any facility by staff or a healthcare provider. Improvement of cross-setting management of pain management during transitions of care to prevent adverse drug events and subsequently reduce emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and readmissions.
A guide for patients and care partners to assess pain and seek medical care when appropriate using a stoplight concept of green (all clear), yellow (caution/warning), and red (emergency).
This is a guide to the 11 steps through a Plan Do Study Act Cycle. Included for each step: the purpose, procedures, a list of possible tools an improvement team might use to accomplish their goals and the outcome.
People matter and the words we use to describe them or the disorders they have matter. Words can transmit stigma. Studies have shown that people with psychiatric and/or substance use disorders often feel judged, outside and inside the health care system. This can lead them to avoid, delay or stop seeking treatment. The way we talk about people with a behavioral disorder can change lives – in either a positive or negative manner.
You will find downloadable posters that address:
Use of Supportive Language That Makes a Person Feel Safe
Overview: A Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a structured, facilitated team process to identify root causes of an event that resulted in an undesired outcome and develop corrective actions. The RCA process provides a way to identify breakdowns in processes and systems that contributed to the event and how to prevent future events.
Reason’s Model of Accident Causation: aka The Swiss Cheese Model
The purpose of a RCA is to find out what happened, why it happened, and determine what changes need to be made. It can be an early step in a PIP, helping to identify what needs to be changed to improve performance. Once you have identified changes that need to be made, the steps you will follow are those you would use in any type of PIP.
Download this fillable RCA PIP Team Template to track progress toward process improvements.
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” – W Edwards Deming
NOTE: Facilities accredited by the Joint Commission or in states with regulations governing completion of RCAs should refer to those requirements to ensure all necessary steps are followed.
Person Centered Comprehensive Care Plan Audit Guide
Use this care plan guide to audit baseline and comprehensive care plans in the long-term care setting to ensure each care plan is person-centered and individualized.
This tool is designed to support nurses, social workers, case managers, and others conducting effective discharge planning and care coordination for adults with disabilities who received care or treatment for COVID-19 illness in an acute care setting, are no longer COVID-19 positive, and require continuation or reconnection to supports and services. While not exhaustive, the resources and considerations proposed in this tool comprise promising practices to be addressed when practicable.
