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Sep 08, 2016, 09:30 ET

CHICAGO, Sept. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety (PPAHS) today released an interview on "Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Opioids" (otherwise known as the RADEO Guide).

RADEO was developed by the Society of Hospital Medicine, the largest organization representing hospitalists and a resource for hospital medicine.

The Society of Hospital Medicine developed a guide for Reducing Adverse Drug Events Related to Opioids (RADEO). In this podcast, lead author, Thomas W. Frederickson MD, FACP, SFHM, MBA, discusses two key aspects of RADEO - (1) assessing patients and (2) monitoring patients. To download a copy of RADEO Implementation Guide, please go to the Society of Hospital Medicine webpage:http://bit.ly/2bLY8Ja

To better understand the RADEO Guide, the Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety interviewed its lead author, Thomas W. Frederickson MD, FACP, SFHM, MBA.

In this first part of a two-part interview, Dr. Frederickson uncovers some key takeaways from the comprehensive publication. In part one of this interview, he focuses on five key steps to identifying and addressing for patient conditions that pose a greater risk of respiratory depression:

Screen for sleep apnea
Use a screening tool to identify patients with OSA
Build multi-modal and opioid sparing strategies for at-risk patient groups
Educate on the risks of interactions with other medication
Empower clinicians with the right tools and policies

In the last half of this in-depth interview with the lead author of the RADEO Guide, Dr. Frederickson focuses on key strategies to implement in effective patient monitoring.

To read the article by PPAHS on this interview with Dr. Frederickson and to view a transcript of the interview, please go to the PPAHS blog at http://www.ppahs.org/blog/

To watch the interview with accompanying slides on YouTube, please click here.

About Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety

Physician-Patient Alliance for Health & Safety is a non-profit 501(c)(3) whose mission is to promote safer clinical practices and standards for patients through collaboration among healthcare experts, professionals, scientific researchers, and others, in order to improve healthcare delivery. For more information, please go to www.ppahs.org.

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