BHS Baltimore will work with all BHS Baltimore-funded buprenorphine and methadone providers to ensure that they are aware of the PMDP and are using it appropriately. BHS Baltimore will outreach to mental health providers in Baltimore City to ensure their awareness of the PMDP Emergency room Development and ACEP to develop Public BHS Baltimore has partnered physicians often feel dissemination of clinical practice dissemination of with Maryland ACEP they need to opiate prescribing guideline recommendations Recommendations representative, Dr. Suzanne prescribe opiates to clinical practice for ER clinicians in Baltimore for Opiate Doyon to assist with patients who come in guideline City Prescribing dissemination of clinical practice complaining of pain recommendations for Clinical Practice guidelines when they become emergency room Guidelines for ER available Collaboration between BCHD clinicians (this effort clinicians in and the Mayor’s office to get has been initiated by Baltimore City by political backing for these Maryland ACEP) June 2014 recommendations Work with local hospitals to ensure dissemination of recommendations Opioid maintenance Educate opioid Development and Number of BHS Baltimore distributed providers are often maintenance providers dissemination of providers who the guidelines to not aware of on risks of benzodiazepine prescribing receive the approximately 50 potentially harmful benzodiazepine use guidelines for opioid guidelines treatment centers and interactions between with opiates maintenance providers approximately 50 benzodiazepines and buprenorphine continuing Number of providers opiates care physicians. A copy is BHS Baltimore-sponsored who attend the BHS available on the BHSB dinner to review guidelines Baltimore-sponsored website at with opioid maintenance dinner providers
BHS Baltimore will work with all BHS Baltimore-funded buprenorphine and methadone providers to ensure that they are aware of the PMDP and are using it appropriately. BHS Baltimore will outreach to mental health providers in Baltimore City to ensure their awareness of the PMDP Emergency room physicians often feel they need to prescribe opiates to patients who come in complaining of pain Development and dissemination of opiate prescribing clinical practice guideline recommendations for emergency room clinicians (this effort has been initiated by Maryland ACEP) ACEP to develop clinical practice guideline recommendations for ER clinicians in Baltimore City Collaboration between BCHD and the Mayor’s office to get political backing for these recommendations Work with local hospitals to ensure dissemination of recommendations Public dissemination of Recommendations for Opiate Prescribing Clinical Practice Guidelines for ER clinicians in Baltimore City by June 2014 BHS Baltimore has partnered with Maryland ACEP representative, Dr. Suzanne Doyon to assist with dissemination of clinical practice guidelines when they become available Opioid maintenance providers are often not aware of potentially harmful interactions between benzodiazepines and opiates Educate opioid maintenance providers on risks of benzodiazepine use with opiates Development and dissemination of benzodiazepine prescribing guidelines for opioid maintenance providers BHS Baltimore-sponsored dinner to review guidelines with opioid maintenance providers Number of providers who receive the guidelines Number of providers who attend the BHS Baltimore-sponsored dinner BHS Baltimore distributed the guidelines to approximately 50 treatment centers and approximately 50 buprenorphine continuing care physicians. A copy is available on the BHSB website at
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