Preventing Opioid Prescription Theft and Ensuring SeCure Transfer of Personal Health Information when Patients Transition from the Hospital to a Nursing Home

J Am Geriatr Soc. 2016 Sep;64(9):e23-5. doi: 10.1111/jgs.14212. Epub 2016 Jul 26.

Authors

Korey A Kennelty^{1

2}, Laury L Jensen¹, Michael Gehring^{1

3}, Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi^{1

4}, Rachel A Roiland¹, Rebecca Kordahl¹, Amy J H Kind^{1

2

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterans Affairs, William S Middleton Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin.
² Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
³ Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁴ School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / administration & dosage*
Health Records, Personal*
Humans
Information Dissemination*
Nursing Homes*
Opioid-Related Disorders / epidemiology
Opioid-Related Disorders / prevention & control*
Patient Education as Topic / methods*
Theft / prevention & control*
Theft / statistics & numerical data
United States / epidemiology

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid

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