Purpose
To ensure that appropriate opioid analgesic treatment is prescribed, supplied or administered for acute pain in a way to limit the dose and duration of opioid analgesic use.
Purpose
Purpose
To ensure that analgesia is optimised, and that the appropriate assessment of risk factors is completed and documented to identify the need for specific risk-modification strategies.
Purpose
To ensure the impact of acute pain on the patient’s function is considered together with pain scores, to guide the appropriate choice of analgesia.
2022
Fact sheet or brochure
This document describes each of the quality statements and indicators included in the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard and their relevance to health service organisations.
2022
Fact sheet or brochure
This fact sheet lists the quality statements for clinicians included in the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard.
2023
Fact sheet or brochure
This resource for consumers explains what each quality statement in the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard means for people presenting with acute pain to the emergency department or following in-patient surgery.
Purpose
To inform patients, and their family or carer, about the potential benefits and harms of acute pain treatment options so that they can participate in decision-making about their treatment with their clinician. This may or may not include opioid analgesics.