Palm Springs, Calif.—A risk stratification and mitigation tool is helping to reduce the risk for opioid-related adverse events at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). According to data presented at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) is a safer, more effective approach to managing pain, with and without opioids, compared with alternative risk mitigation strategies.
“Using STORM,