Chapter 1: Retail initiatives to improve the healthiness of food environments in rural,
regional and remote communities Objective: To synthesise the evidence for effectiveness of …

Abstract The United States faces an opioid crisis with an unprecedented and increasing
death rate from opioid overdose. Successfully reducing the rates of opioid use disorder …

Background Patients with a substance use disorder (SUD) often present with co-occurring
chronic conditions in primary care. Despite the high co-occurrence of chronic medical …

Background Interventions to reduce harms related to prescription opioids are needed in
primary care settings. Objective To determine whether a multicomponent intervention …

Background: The Six Building Blocks Program is an evidence-based approach to primary
care redesign for opioid management among patients with chronic pain. This analysis …

Two key advancements in improving the quality of primary care have been practice-based
research networks (PBRNs) and Project Extension for Community Health care Outcomes …

In response to the opioid epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
released best practice recommendations for prescribing, yet adoption of these guidelines …

Background The learning health care system (LHS) envisions the integration of research
and care delivery in a manner that rapidly generates and adopts new evidence to improve …

Background–Since publication of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for
Chronic Pain, there have been growing concerns that providers, including those in primary …

Background: Opioids are more commonly prescribed for chronic pain in rural settings in the
USA, yet little is known about how the rural context influences efforts to improve opioid …