WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: January 11, 2018   Featuring:  ​​Glenn Crotty, Jr., MD, FACP, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, West Virginia University; Executive Vice President and COO, Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Robert B. Saper, MD, MPH, Associate Professor Family Medicine, Boston University; Chair, Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health Shane Coleman, MD, MPH, Division Medical Director, Behavior Services Division, Southcentral Foundation​ Mara Laderman, MSPH, Director, Innovation, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)​​ As efforts continue to curb the opioid addiction epidemic in the US and reduce deaths from overdoses​, the underlying problem of overprescribing remains very much in the spotlight. There's growing evidence that clinicians writing prescriptions for Vicodin, Percocet, OxyContin, and the like are adhering to new, stricter guidelines, and doing a better job keeping track of their patients taking opioids.    But with these changes in prescribing, experts and providers