Implementation of an Opioid Stewardship Program to Promote Safer Opioid Prescribing

Lianping Ti; Tamara Mihic; Hannah James; Stephen Shalansky; Michael Legal; Seonaid Nolan

doi:10.4212/cjhp.v75i2.3115

Implementation of an Opioid Stewardship Program to Promote Safer Opioid Prescribing

Can J Hosp Pharm. 2022 Spring;75(2):113-117. doi: 10.4212/cjhp.v75i2.3115. Epub 2022 Apr 4.

Authors

Lianping Ti¹, Tamara Mihic², Hannah James³, Stephen Shalansky², Michael Legal², Seonaid Nolan⁴

Affiliations

¹ , PhD, is with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and the Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
² , PharmD, is with the Pharmacy Department, Providence Health Care, and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
³ , BKI, is with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, British Columbia.
⁴ , MD, is with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and the Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.

No abstract available

Grants and funding

The opioid stewardship program is funded by a grant from the Vancouver Foundation, contributions from the St Paul’s Hospital Pharmacy Department and the BC Ministries of Health and of Mental Health and Addictions, and philanthropic donations through the St Paul’s Foundation. Lianping Ti is supported by a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Scholar Award. Seonaid Nolan is supported by an MSFHR Health Professional Investigator Award and the UBC Steven Diamond Professorship in Addiction Care Innovation.