Background: Pain management is a key quality indicator in hospital satisfaction surveys throughout the United States. Inadequate pain management contributes to longer inpatient length of stay, medical complications, inadequate healing, and dissatisfaction with the hospital experience. In the future, poor performance of the key quality indicators will translate into hundreds of thousands of dollars lost […]

Background: New Mexico has a long-standing history of implementing harm reduction strategies for the prevention of opioid overdose. Most recently, on June 14, 2019, SB221 added language to the New Mexico Pain Relief Act requiring health care providers prescribing opioid analgesics for 5 days or longer to co-prescribe an opioid antagonist along with written information […]