November 17, 2011 at 05:11 PM
Harvard University researchers are in talks with the California State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) about establishing an academic detailing program to improve the prescribing habits of opioid medicines and painkillers for injured workers to help them return to work sooner, with the effort likely representing the first iteration of such an activity that could also serve as a template for other states. Meanwhile, a parallel initiative to create the first U.S. insurance industry-funded academic detailing program is making headway, according to the organizer of the payor consortium. A NIOSH