Geriatric Education Series - Appropriate Prescribing Practices for Opioids for Pain Management in Older Adults

Dartmouth Health Continuing Education for Professionals Home, Geriatric Education Series - Appropriate Prescribing Practices for Opioids for Pain Management in Older Adults, 2/4/2021 8:00:00 AM - 2/4/2024 9:00:00 AM, This series is designed so that learners will be able to apply principles of evidence-based medicine to determine clinical diagnoses, and formulate and implement acceptable treatment modalities for geriatric patients.

Activity Details
NOTE: The first few minutes of this presentation were not captured on the recording.

Presenter
Charles Brackett. MD, MPH 
General Internal Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Assistant Professor of Medicine
The Dartmouth Institute and Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth

Learning Outcome(s)
Participants will be able to recommend non-pharmacologic approaches to pain, maximize non-opioid pharmacologic approaches and use opioids cautiously, being aware of when and how to taper if their side effects and risks exceed the benefit.

Disclosure
The activity director(s), planning committee member(s), speaker(s), author(s) or anyone in a position to control the content have reported NO financial interest or relationship* with various companies. There were no individuals in a position to control the content that refused to disclose.

*A financial interest or relationship" refers to an equity position, receipt of royalties, consultantship, funding by a research grant, receiving honoraria for educational services elsewhere, or to any other relationship to a company that provides sufficient reason for disclosure, in keeping with the spirit of the stated policy.

Bibliographic References
See presentation for bibliographic sources to allow for further study.