M3B What is the Maximum Permissible Dose of Morphine or Fentanyl? A Question of Physician Compliance and Quality of Care

Subject Area: Physician Compliance 

Knowledge Level: Advanced

• Evaluate the compliance risk from the indictment of an Ohio physician on 25 homicide counts
• Monitor excess doses of pain medications that can lead to respiratory depression
• Learn to establish proper hospital audits to protect the lives of medicated patients

David Hoffman, Chief Compliance Officer, Carthage Area Hospital

Bradford Winters, Ph.D., M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine