Year: 2010
Resolution Number: 45
Action Taken: No Action
Status:
Author(s): Edward P. Washabaugh III, MD
Sponsor: Edward P. Washabaugh,III, MD
On behalf of: Washtenaw County Delegation
Committee: E (Science & Education Affairs)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS support a policy that health care providers prescribing daily opiates in chronic pain patients monitor those patients at a minimum with a yearly random quantitative urine drug screen.RATIONALE: Existing AMA policy addresses the issue of promoting pain relief and preventing abuse of pain medications. The Committee agreed that this would be considered a mandate and should not be imposed on physicians. The Committee believed that the resolved was too specific, as guidelines are already available.
RESOLVED: That MSMS support a policy that health care providers prescribing daily opiates in chronic pain patients monitor those patients at a minimum with a yearly random quantitative urine drug screen.RATIONALE: Existing AMA policy addresses the issue of promoting pain relief and preventing abuse of pain medications. The Committee agreed that this would be considered a mandate and should not be imposed on physicians. The Committee believed that the resolved was too specific, as guidelines are already available.
Fiscal Note: NULL