Author: IPRO

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 IPRO QIN-QIO Opioid Utilization Dashboard is an interactive tool in Tableau that shows geographic comparisons at the state and county levels of de-identified Medicare Part D opioid prescriptions filled within11 states and the District of Columbia in the IPRO QIN-QIO network. We also provide information on the concomitant use of benzodiazepines and opioids. Our goal is to support your efforts, as an organization or a community partner, in improving opioid prescribing practices.

Click here for a Video tutorial on how to use the dashboard

For questions or additional information about this Dashboard, please email Anne Myrka, RPh, MAT, amyrka@ipro.org .

This resource assists providers to screen their patients for interpersonal safety, a health-related social need that may impact health outcomes.

This toolkit is an informative resource for Skilled Nursing Facilities to use as reference to make sure their facilities are prepared for infectious disease outbreaks.

Nursing Home Survey Tag Specific Emergency Preparedness Checklist

Checklist to cross reference facility emergency preparedness plan with CMS survey requirements to ensure all elements are addressed in facility emergency preparedness plan. There is also a companion document that provides links to resources for emergency preparedness plan development.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mm1VLd8robyygaA_NBKmO-rSC2OWCqwL/view?usp=drive_link

Tag Specific Emergency Preparedness Resources

Companion document to Nursing Home Tag Specific Emergency Preparedness Checklist

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ae55H6eMFmwoV9Idj2nx-owWvfgZnFZ5

This resource is a information guide for care partners of nursing home patients who are starting hemodialysis. The guide includes information on what to expect and ways care partners can help.

The Pain, Enjoyment, General Activity (PEG) Scale assesses pain intensity and interference and is considered the gold standard for pain scales.

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).

The Conversation Starter helps pharmacists guide the conversation they have with patients regarding opioid management and lifestyle management, opioid assessment and plan, recommendations, and follow-up steps. This guide is intended to ease what could potentially be a difficult conversation.

This tool is intended to help remind pharmacists about opioid-related counseling points as needed.

An on-line instructional webinar created in collaboration with IPRO QIN-QIO and the University at Buffalo can be accessed at the link above.

Prescribers and pharmacists who work or live in DC, DE, CT, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, OH, RI, VT can earn 1.5 hours of free ACCME or ACPE continuing education for completing this program by using this code when prompted: qinub23.

It is available October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2025, and covers a review the opioid epidemic and regulatory responses, identifies legitimate medical use vs. illegitimate opioid use, reviews basic counseling items with relationship to opioids, identifies advanced counseling items related to opioids and identifies overdose risks indicating provision of naloxone.

Supporting documents for this program include:

Opioid Stewardship – Opioid Counseling Checklist

This tool is intended to help remind pharmacists about opioid-related counseling points as needed.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zYRl_w_59f-ydAu-JSfEcmugdELk1SXz/view?usp=drive_link

Conversation Starter – Opioid Dispensing, Education, and Management for Pharmacists

The Conversation Starter helps pharmacists guide the conversation they have with patients regarding opioid management and lifestyle management, opioid assessment and plan, recommendations, and follow-up steps. This guide is intended to ease what could potentially be a difficult conversation.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yA_xQ1iKvjXvdKA92_cVoWBzCBNDJOh-/view?usp=drive_link

Pain Management Zone Tool

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).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPSuOIdbGzG8Ue6TnBBA3bLA0IzHd8aA/view?usp=drive_link

Pain, Enjoyment, and General Activity (PEG) Scale for Assessing Pain Intensity and Interference

The Pain, Enjoyment, General Activity (PEG) Scale assesses pain intensity and interference and is considered the gold standard for pain scales.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cLGRvi483BEt_FpZxNRuydyGdEpbq393

The NJ DOH has created a short video to demonstrate glove doffing. It illustrates two methods, Beaking and Pinch and Pull. This is an excellent addition to staff hand hygiene competency training.

Nursing Home Survey Tag Specific Emergency Preparedness Checklist

Checklist to cross reference facility emergency preparedness plan with CMS survey requirements to ensure all elements are addressed in facility emergency preparedness plan. There is also a companion document that provides links to resources for emergency preparedness plan development.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mm1VLd8robyygaA_NBKmO-rSC2OWCqwL/view?usp=drive_link

Tag Specific Emergency Preparedness Resources

Companion document to Nursing Home Tag Specific Emergency Preparedness Checklist.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ae55H6eMFmwoV9Idj2nx-owWvfgZnFZ5

Companion document to Nursing Home Tag Specific Emergency Preparedness Checklist

Checklist to cross reference facility emergency preparedness plan with CMS survey requirements to ensure all elements are addressed in facility emergency preparedness plan. There is also a companion document that provides links to resources for emergency preparedness plan development.