Sabtu, 12 September 2020
VA health care, actions needed to ensure medical facility controlled substance inspection programs meet agency requirements : report to the Chairman, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives. (9781973724605)
" Diversion of opioid pain relievers and other controlled substances by health care providers has occurred at several VA medical facilities. Such diversions for personal use can pose a threat to patients by depriving them of needed medications. Absent effective practices to mitigate its risk and quickly identify it, diversion can occur undetected. VHA requires each of its facilities to implement a controlled substance inspection program to help reduce the risk of diversion. GAO was asked to examine VHA's processes to prevent diversion and its oversight of these processes. This report examines VHA's implementation and oversight of controlled substance inspection programs at selected facilities. GAO reviewed VHA policies and interviewed officials from VHA central office and from a nongeneralizable selection of four facilities and the networks that oversee them. Facilities were selected to reflect variation in geography and in the number of opioids dispensed at retail pharmacies in the state in which the facility operates. GAO compared the facilities' implementation and oversight of the programs to VHA's policy requirements and to federal standards for internal control. "
Product details
- Paperback | 40 pages
- 216 x 280 x 2mm | 118g
- 19 Jul 2017
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- English
- 197372460X
- 9781973724605
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