ArticleThe Permanente journal2020
A Pharmacist-Led Program to Taper Opioid Use at Kaiser Permanente Northwest: Rationale, Design, and Evaluation.
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- Pharmacists may facilitate opioid tapering before total hip or knee arthroplasty.Annals of joint · 2026Article
- Association Between Opioid Dosage Tapering and Opioid Overdose Among Long-Term Higher-Dose Opioid Users.AJPM focus · 2025Article
- Perceptions of patients and health care professionals on postoperative pain management: Key factors influencing persistent opioid use.British journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- A Pharmacist-Assisted Initiative to Improve Chronic Pain Management and Reduce Opioid Use in Primary Care.Innovations in pharmacy · 2023Article
- A pharmacist-led intervention to improve the management of opioids in a general practice: a qualitative evaluation of participant interviews.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2022Article
- Adjunct Digital Interventions Improve Opioid-Based Pain Management: Impact of Virtual Reality and Mobile Applications on Patient-Centered Pharmacy Care.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Review
- "We Need to Taper." Interviews with Clinicians and Pharmacists About Use of a Pharmacy-Led Opioid Tapering Program.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2021Article
- Design, implementation, and evaluation of a pharmacist-led outpatient benzodiazepine-tapering clinic.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
- "I really had somebody in my corner." Patient experiences with a pharmacist-led opioid tapering program.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
- Factors associated with opioid-tapering success: A mixed methods study.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhAArticle
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Abstract
introductionPrimary care practitioners (PCPs) are concerned about adverse effects and poor outcomes of opioid use but may find opioid tapering difficult because of a lack of pain management training or time constraints limiting patient counseling. In 2010, Kaiser Permanente Northwest implemented a pharmacist-led opioid tapering program-Support Team Onsite Resource for Management of Pain (STORM)-to address high rates of opioid use, alleviate PCPs' workload demands, and improve patient outcomes.
objectiveTo describe the rationale, structure, and delivery of this unique pharmacist-led program, which partners with PCPs and provides individualized care to help patients reduce opioid use, and the Facilitating Lower Opioid Amounts through Tapering study, which examines the program's effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and implementation.
resultsThe STORM program includes a pain medicine physician, a social worker or nurse, and pharmacists who have received specialized clinical and communications training. The program has a 2-fold role: 1) to provide PCP education about pain management and opioid use and 2) to offer clinician and patient support with opioid tapering and pain management. After program training, PCPs are equipped to discuss the need for tapering with a patient and to refer to the program. Program pharmacists provide a range of services, including opioid taper plans, nonopioid pain management recommendations, and taper-support outreach to patients. DISCUSSION: The STORM program provides individualized care to assist patients with opioid tapering while reducing the burden on PCPs.
conclusionThe STORM program may be a valuable addition to health care systems and settings seeking options to address their patients' opioid tapering needs.
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