Opioid MME Calculator (CDC 2022)
Opioid MME Calculator (CDC 2022) - a deterministic tool in Sophie Well's Medication & Infusion group.
Open the Opioid MME Calculator (CDC 2022) → Runs in your browser. No signup, no tracking.
What this is
Build up a row per prescribed opioid - drug, mg per dose, doses per day - and Sophie Well totals the daily morphine milligram equivalent using the CDC 2022 conversion factors (MMWR Recomm Rep. 2022;71(3):1-95). Per-drug breakdown is shown so the math is auditable; the CDC 50 / 90 MME thresholds are flagged when crossed.
When to use it
Use this when reviewing a chronic-pain regimen, a hospital discharge prescription, or a referral for tapering. The 50 / 90 MME thresholds are framing values, not hard cutoffs; the 2022 CDC update explicitly warns against using them as absolute prescribing limits.
References
CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids - United States, 2022. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2022;71(3):1-95.
Source: CDC 2022 Opioid MME conversion factors
Worked example: Morphine 30 mg x 6 doses/day = 180 total MME (CDC thresholds 50 and 90).
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