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May 2020 STRATEGIES FOR REDUCING POSTOPERATIVE OPIOID PRESCRIPTIONS AND PREVENTING DRUG MISUSEFeaturing: David M. Kalainov, MD, MBA
Episode SummaryDavid M. Kalainov, MD, MBA, clinical professor in the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, discusses the problem of opioid over-prescribing and the teaching tool that he and his colleagues at Northwestern Medicine developed to lower prescription opioid pill quantities and standardize prescribing across the health system.
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- Protein May Improve Immunotherapy for Medulloblastoma
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Ophthalmology
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- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Orthopaedic Outcomes
- Use of Muscle Atrophy and Fatty Infiltration in Surgical Decision Making for Rotator Cuff Tears
- Strategies for Reducing Postoperative Opioid Prescriptions and Preventing Drug Misuse
- Optimizing Outcomes in Total Knee Arthroplasty
- Are We Overprescribing Opioids for Perioperative Pain Management?
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- New Northwestern Medicine Center for Spine Health’s Team-Based Approach Streamlines, Simplifies Care
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- Bunta Honored as ‘Pillar of the Orthopaedic Profession’
- Suleiman and Youmans Honored as Leaders in Minority Health
- Hill Receives Diversity Award from Orthopaedic Society
- The Business of Medicine
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- The Next Frontier in Spine Care: Northwestern Medicine Integrated Spine Center Expands Non-Surgical Offerings to Improve Patient Outcomes
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Psychiatry
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- Using Integrative Care Models to Improve Mental Health Care
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- Recognizing and Addressing Signs of Physician Burnout and Substance Abuse
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- Bilaver and Epstein Named New Leaders of Health Sciences Integrated PhD Program
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- Championing Research at the Intersection of Behavioral Science and the Law
- Cilia Defects Linked to Schizophrenia
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- Kids, Mental Health and COVID-19 with Tali Raviv, PhD
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Pulmonary
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- Northwestern Medicine Investigators Receive $14 Million Grant to Study Viral Pneumonia
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- Ambulatory Precision Lung Sparing (A-PLUS) Surgery Program
- Northwestern Medicine Comprehensive COVID-19 Center Provides Coordinated Care for Chronic COVID-19
- Inside the OR: COVID-19 Double-Lung Transplant
- Assessing COPD Risk and Narrow Airways
- Advancing Outcomes of Esophageal Cancer Through Early Detection, Clinical Trials, Minimally Invasive Surgery and More
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- 'Sweat Sticker' Diagnoses Cystic Fibrosis on The Skin in Real Time
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- Identifying Molecular Mechanisms Within the Nuclear Lamina
- Transforming Lung Cells Critical for Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Promising Technology and Research in Lung Transplantation
- Diabetes Drug Could Help Prevent Air Pollution Deaths, Scott Budinger, MD
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COVID-19 and Pulmonary
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- Northwestern Medicine Performs Double-Lung Transplant on COVID-19 Patient Using Lungs from COVID-19 Donor
- COVID-19 and Vulnerable Communities with Mercedes Carnethon, PhD
- Northwestern Medicine Introduces Comprehensive COVID-19 Center to Treat Chronic COVID Disease
- Why COVID-19 Pneumonia Lasts Longer, Causes More Damage
- Double Lung Transplants Save COVID-19 Patients
- How Lung Transplants Are Saving COVID-19 Patients with Ankit Bharat, MBBS
- When COVID-19 and Influenze Collide: Managing Two Epidemics
- The Dangers of Unproven COVID-19 Therapies with Benjamin Singer, MD
- Northwestern Medicine Leaders on COVID-19 and ICU Care
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Rehabilitation
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Breakthroughs in Rehabilitation
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- Improving Quality of Physician Documentation in the IRF Setting
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- Aphasia
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- Establishing Standardized Rehabilitation Treatment for Critically-Ill COVID-19 Survivors
- Addressing the Mental Health Needs of COVID-19 Survivors
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Rheumatology
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Clinical Breakthroughs in Rheumatology
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- Does a Mobile App to Monitor RA Symptoms Improve Disease Activity?
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- Lupus Nephritis and Comprehensive Care of Lupus Patients
- Do Physician Prescribing Patterns Predict Chronic Opioid Use Among Patients with RA?
- Precision Medicine Approaches to Scleroderma Treatment
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- Examining Clinical Predictors of Chronic Opioid Use Among Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
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- Northwestern Medicine Rheumatology at ACR Convergence 2021
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- Northwestern Medicine Experts at ACR Convergence 2020
- Establishing a Multidisciplinary Clinic for Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
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Urology
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- Providing Gender-Affirming Care to Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients
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- Urolithiasis in Pregnancy: Diagnosis and Management
- Challenging Case Report: Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate in the Retreatment Setting
- Black Men and Prostate Cancer with Edward Schaeffer, MD, PhD
- Considerations in Radiation in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer
- Abdulkadir Wins 2020 Tripartite Prize
- A National Leader in the Care for Patients with Urologic Cancers
- Why Black Men's Prostate Cancer May Be More Responsive to Immunotherapy
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- Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP): Platinum Standard for BPH Therapy?
- How Northwestern Medicine is Handling the BCG Shortage
- Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer
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- Investigating the Clinical and Molecular Biology of High-Risk Prostate Cancer
- Uncovering the Function of Prostate Cancer Protein
- Uncovering Racial Differences in Genomic Profiles of Prostate Cancer
- Uncovering Epigenetic Mechanisms Underlying Cancer Development
- Prostate Cancer Disparity Research
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- Understanding Male Hypogonadism
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