San Diego—The recent development of a safety scale—the Michigan Opioid Safety Score (MOSS)—could help improve patient safety while empowering nurses to make the right decisions with respect to analgesic choices.
The fine line between the analgesic effects of opioids and their potential side effects is a tightrope that health care practitioners walk every day. Researchers analyzing the MOSS scale concluded that nurses found that the tool was easy to use and improved their