The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has downgraded its rating of evidence for the effectiveness of opioids in treating pain in its latest guideline update, making it more difficult for physicians who use the guidelines to justify use of the drugs as a treatment option.
ACOEM, which develops guidelines for medical treatment on which many states base regulations and guides for the care of injured workers, reviewed 263 articles and published an updated version of its opioid prescription recommendations in the December issue of the Journal of Occupational and ...
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