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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Pain Control Protocol Reduces Opioid Use

By Thomas Rosenthal

Baltimore—A North Carolina hospital’s trauma service created a multidisciplinary team that substantially reduced opioid prescriptions for patients by standardizing the approach to pain control, according to a new study.

The Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center’s multidisciplinary team implemented a pain management protocol (PMP) for trauma patients that improved pain management and patient satisfaction while reducing opioid use, the researchers reported at the