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Effective Strategies for Hospitals Responding to the Opioid Crisis

This document provides hospital and health system administrators and leaders with specific improvement ideas for five system-level strategies that address the challenges of preventing, identifying, and treating opioid use disorder.

Addressing the Opioid Crisis in the United States

This IHI Innovation Report discusses key reasons why current efforts to reduce prescription opioid use and misuse in the US have thus far been largely ineffective in stemming the crisis; highlights gaps in current efforts that underscore the need for a coordinated and collaborative community-wide approach; identifies four primary drivers to reduce opioid use; and proposes a high-level construct for a system approach at the community level to address the US opioid crisis.

Annotated Bibliography for Preventing Harm from High-Alert Medications

This annotated bibliography presents selected literature for preventing harm from high-alert medications.

Best-practice protocols: Reducing harm from high-alert medications

This second article in a series describes reducing harm to patients from high-alert medications by reviewing a case study on the importance of postoperative monitoring of opioid-naive patients who are receiving narcotics.

Preventing harm from high-alert medication

The author describes the Institute for Healthcare Improvement 5 Million Lives Campaign intervention to prevent patient harm from high-alert medications, starting with a focus on anticoagulants, sedatives, narcotics, and insulin.

Protecting patients from harm: Reduce the risks of high-alert drugs

Learn how adapting processes for prescribing, preparing, and administering can help reduce errors associated with certain high-alert medications.