Adverse Drug Events

  • DEA X-Waiver Expands Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
    June 18, 2021

    In this brief video, Dr. Bobby Redwood, WHA's Physician Quality Improvement Advisor, and emergency physician and subject matter expert on opioid stewardship and medication safety, informs prescribers about changes by the DEA that eliminate certain X-Waiver requirements to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder treatment intended to expand access to medication-assisted treatment. (Video length is 1:26 minutes)


  • Opioid Safety Side Effect #1 Constipation/Fecal Impaction
    May 03, 2021

    Dr. Bobby Redwood, WHA Physician Quality Improvement Advisor, and emergency physician and subject matter expert on opioid stewardship and medication safety for the Superior Health Quality Alliance, explains the risks and benefits of opioid pain medications. In this video he discusses the opioid safety side effect of constipation/fecal impaction. This video is 1:47 minutes long.


  • Opioid Safety Side Effect # 2 Confusion/Delirium
    May 03, 2021

    Dr. Bobby Redwood, WHA Physician Quality Improvement Advisor, and emergency physician and subject matter expert on opioid stewardship and medication safety for the Superior Health Quality Alliance, explains the risks and benefits of opioid pain medications. This brief video (2:26 minutes) discusses the opioid side effects of confusion and delirium.


  • Opioid Safety Side Effect #3 Opioid Use Disorder
    May 03, 2021

    Dr. Bobby Redwood, WHA Physician Quality Improvement Advisor, and emergency physician and subject matter expert on opioid stewardship and medication safety for the Superior Health Quality Alliance, explains the risks and benefits of opioid pain medications. This brief video (2:10 minutes) discusses opioid use disorder.


  • GLPP and MN HIIN Sustainability Webinar Series: Opioid Stewardship
    May 21, 2020

    The Great Lakes Partners for Patients Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (GLPP HIIN), in conjunction with the Minnesota HIIN, are providing a series of educational, monthly webinars that will run from April through September 2020. The series will focus on driving improvement in various quality improvement areas – opioid stewardship, sepsis, hospital-acquired infections, readmissions and pressure ulcers. The May 21 webinar focused on sharing best practices and resources to address Opioid Stewardship.


  • Challenges in the Era of Opioid Crisis - Addiction Risk
    May 03, 2018

    The Great Lakes Partners for Patients HIIN is pleased to bring you Dr. Roy Soto on the topic of Multimodal Analgesia; specifically how it ties into pain management in the current era of the opioid crisis.


  • Challenges in the Era of the Opioid Crisis - Multimodal Analgesia
    May 03, 2018

    The Great Lakes Partners for Patients HIIN is pleased to bring you Dr. Roy Soto on the topic of Multimodal Analgesia; specifically how it ties into pain management in the current era of the opioid crisis.


  • Challenges in the Era of the Opioid Crisis -Education and Expectant Management
    May 01, 2018

    The Great Lakes Partners for Patients is pleased to bring you Dr. Roy Soto on the topic of Education and Expectation Management and how those are important in Pain Management, especially in this era of the opioid crisis.


  • Challeges in the Era of the Opioid Crisis-Drug Disposal
    May 01, 2018

    The Great Lakes Partners for Patients HIIN is pleased to bring you Dr. Roy Soto on the topic of drug disposal and how that ties into pain management challenges we currently have in this era of the opioid crisis.


  • Perioperative Pain Management: Challenges in the Era of the Opioid Crisis
    April 24, 2018

    WHA has partnered with Dr. Roy Soto to help Wisconsin hospitals achieve a 20% reduction in adverse drug events related to opioids. Dr. Soto earned his medical degree at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery internship at USAF Medical Center and his anesthesiology residency at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.