How Do Emergency Department Patients Store and Dispose of Opioids After Discharge? A Pilot Study

Journal of Emergency Nursing

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 273-279

  Tanabe, Paula ^a   Paice, Judith A ^b   Stancati, Jennifer ^c   Fleming, Michael ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Opioids; Pain

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG STORAGE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DRUG STORAGE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84860675898     PISSN: 00991767     EISSN: 15272966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jen.2011.09.023     Document Type: Article

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