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ON-DEMAND WEBINAR SERIES:
OPIOID THERAPY IN THE SERIOUSLY ILL: BALANCING BENEFIT AND HARMS
Chief Medical Officer, MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care
Executive Director, MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care
Professor of Neurology and Family and Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Purpose: This webinar will describe the use of long-term opioid therapy for populations with pain complicating serious chronic illness. The discussion will focus on the balance between benefit and harms and will provide clinical guidance regarding patient selection, assessment, and management. The goal of the presentation is to provide clinically relevant information about the best evidence informing guidelines that optimize the likelihood of safe and effective opioid prescription in seriously ill populations.
Objectives:
- Select patients with serious chronic illness for opioid therapy based on the best evidence and conventional practice guidelines
- Assess patients with chronic pain in terms of the risks and benefits of long-term opioid therapy
- Implement a risk-management approach to opioid therapy for pain that includes both the risk of side effects/toxicities and the risk of substance abuse outcomes
Continuing Education Credits: 1.0
Continuing Education Accreditation
Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.
Fees:
Individual: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)
Release Date: December 20, 2023
Expiration Date: December 20, 2024 (for physicians and non-physicians); February 1, 2025 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)
Disclosures:
Russell K. Portenoy, MD, Faculty and Planner, has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.
No other Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.
Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS
Funding Disclosure: No commercial funding has been accepted for the activity.
Location: Online at https://www.mjhspalliativeinstitute.org/e-learning/
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