{"id":11941,"date":"2024-02-16T21:19:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T21:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/chronic-pain-management-often-requires-dea-scheduled-medications-how-informatics-assist-providers-in-controlling-the-opioid-crisis-and-ensuring-the-above-patient-is-not-abusing-the-medications\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T21:19:26","slug":"chronic-pain-management-often-requires-dea-scheduled-medications-how-informatics-assist-providers-in-controlling-the-opioid-crisis-and-ensuring-the-above-patient-is-not-abusing-the-medications","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/chronic-pain-management-often-requires-dea-scheduled-medications-how-informatics-assist-providers-in-controlling-the-opioid-crisis-and-ensuring-the-above-patient-is-not-abusing-the-medications\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronic pain management often requires DEA scheduled medications. How informatics assist providers in controlling the Opioid crisis and ensuring the above patient is not abusing the medications?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">case study: A 78-year-old male patient is complaining of increased left knee pain for the past 3 to 4 months. He has had no history of recent injury. An x-ray done less than 4 months ago showed degenerative osteoarthritic changes. He has full range of motion and denies any recent swelling, pedal edema, or discoloration. He has been a long-distance runner for many years and was diagnosed with osteoarthritis of his left knee more than 10 years ago. He has decreased his weekly running, but the pain is persistent and is affecting his daily activities. He has been using over-the-counter NSAIDs on and off, but states they are no longer working and wants something \u201cstronger.\u201d His vital signs are all normal and he has no history of fever, chills, or rashes. He is otherwise healthy.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/p>\n<div>Question:&nbsp;<span style=\"color: inherit; background-color: var(--color-6); font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-family: Poppins, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &quot;Segoe UI&quot;, Roboto, &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, &quot;Noto Sans&quot;, sans-serif, &quot;Apple Color Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Emoji&quot;, &quot;Segoe UI Symbol&quot;, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;;\">Chronic pain management often requires DEA scheduled medications. How informatics assist providers in controlling the Opioid crisis and ensuring the above patient is not abusing the medications?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>case study: A 78-year-old male patient is complaining of increased left knee pain for the past 3 to 4 months. He has had no history of recent injury. An x-ray done less than 4 months ago showed degenerative osteoarthritic changes. He has full range of motion and denies any recent swelling, pedal edema, or discoloration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[13],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/11941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}