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Objective was to reduce opioid doses prescribed weekly from our ED by 50% within 4 months.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>METHODS:<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Three categories of interventions were implemented in Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles: guidelines and education, electronic medical record optimization, and provider-specific feedback. Primary measures were opioid doses prescribed weekly from the ED and opioid doses per 100 ED visits. Process measures were opioid prescriptions, opioid doses per prescription, and opioid prescriptions for unspecified abdominal pain, headache, and viral upper respiratory infection. Balancing measures were phone calls and return visits for poor pain control in patients prescribed opioids and reports of poor pain control in call backs to orthopedic reduction patients. We used statistical process control to examine changes in measures over time.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>RESULTS:<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Opioid doses decreased from 153 to 14 per week and from 8 to 0.7 doses per 100 ED visits in 10 months, sustained for 9 months. Opioid prescriptions, opioid doses per prescription, and prescriptions for unspecified abdominal pain, headache, and viral upper respiratory infection decreased. Phone calls and return visits in patients prescribed opioids did not increase. 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