Impact of Prior Therapeutic Opioid Use by Emergency Department Providers on Opioid Prescribing Decisions

INTRODUCTION: Our study sought to examine the opioid analgesic (OA) prescribing decisions of emergency department (ED) providers who have themselves used OA therapeutically and those who have not. A second objective was to determine if OA prescribing decisions would differ based on the patient�...

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Main Authors: Adam C Pomerleau, Jeanmarie Perrone, Jason Hoppe, Matthew Salzman, Paul Weiss, Lewis Nelson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2016-11-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wn0x8g1