Which of the following is a practical way that chief executives can support appropriate pain management and opioid prescribing for medical directors and prescribing practitioners on staff?
- Support access to the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) database.
- Allow each practitioner to make their own decisions without restriction for which medications to prescribe for pain management.
- Provide internal guidelines that hand responsibility for difficult pain management to the relevant medical director.
- Standardize pain management protocols so that they treat pain for both inpatients and outpatients with the same approach.