A new consensus statement from the Society of Hospital Medicine on improving the safety of opioid prescribing for acute noncancer pain in hospitalized adults also addresses whether to use opioids in such a setting and how to enhance the safety of opioid dispensing at hospital discharge.
The statement’s 16 recommendations were published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine (2018;13[4]:263-271).
“We all perceived there was a need for some degree of standardization in acute pain