We ask authors to describe their impressions regarding the implications of their accepted work, how their findings will change practice, and what is noteworthy about the work.
This paper serves as a useful example of the way one medical system has begun addressing the issue of managing opioid use disordered patients in a non-addictions setting. Caring for such patients can be especially stressful for medical professionals who are not trained in addictions. The coming together of many disciplines in the form of a task force highlights the fact that caring for the patients requires a multifaceted approach to improve patient safety and patient outcomes. Use of a task force also allowed for problems to be identified and solved quickly and efficiently. Further, the use of this model really helped bring a distressed team together with a unified mission to tackle the prevalent and potentially deadly issue of caring for those with active opioid addictions in a general medical ward.
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