Tag: risk benefit assessment (RBA)

Tapering – Guidance & Tools 

Clinical Update Dec. 2018 Overview Over the last 20 years, the liberal prescribing of opioids for chronic pain has created a population of patients who been on long term opioid therapy (LTOT) for several years if not decades. Many patients are on doses well above the CDC recommended upper limit of 90 Morphine Equivalent Dose…