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Discharging the Non-compliant Pain Patient

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Pain Management and Palliative Care

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Abstract

This chapter will focus on how to address a patient who is non-compliant with the practice guidelines for safe opioid analgesic use and when/how to properly discharge them from the practice if necessary. Please keep in mind that practice guidelines cannot anticipate each individual patient’s situation and must be adapted to the individual situation using the clinician’s judgment.

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Abbreviations

GC/MS:

Gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy

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  1. Capitol Pain Institute, Austin, TX, USA

    Anjuli Desai M.D.

  2. Department of Pain Medicine, Temple University Hospital, 3401 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19140, USA

    Anjuli Desai M.D.

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Interventional Pain Management, New York University , Langone Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

    Kimberly A. Sackheim

Appendices

Appendix 1: Sample opioid contract. © Kimberly Sackheim 2015. All Rights Reserved

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Appendix 2: Sample discharge letter. © Kimberly Sackheim 2015. All Rights Reserved

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Desai, A. (2015). Discharging the Non-compliant Pain Patient. In: Sackheim, K. (eds) Pain Management and Palliative Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2462-2_9

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