Opportunities to Improve Decision-Making About Opioid Prescribing

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 3-5

  Rutkow, Lainie ^a   Davis, Corey S ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Network for Public Health Law   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS';

EID: 84986258374     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3847-3     Document Type: Article

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