Opioids and Risk Management

Dr. Schlicher talks with Rabia Ahmad, JD, an attorney at Helsell Fetterman, LLP. Rabia focuses her practice in the areas of health care law and medical malpractice, specifically defending physicians and hospitals against medical malpractice lawsuits and in professional licensing proceedings.

Learning Objectives

• Have a strategy to better mitigate clinical and legal risk and liability.
• Differentiate between criminal and civil liability.
• Differentiate between the role of state medical boards in addressing complaints and the purpose of the prescription drug monitoring program.
• Recognize what falls outside the usual course of professional practice and have a strategy to stay within appropriate practice parameters.

Release date: Jan. 12, 2024

Expiration date: Jan. 11, 2027

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Resources

Opioids and Risk Management slide deck

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022

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