Background: Emergency physicians provide primary care to patients and often prescribe
opioids for acutely painful self-limiting conditions. The objective of this study was to describe …

Importance Prescription opioids can treat acute pain in primary care but have potential for
unsafe use and progression to prolonged opioid prescribing. Objective To compare clinician …

Background Increasing overuse of opioids in the United States may be driven in part by
physician prescribing. However, the extent to which individual physicians vary in opioid …

Background Death from opioid abuse is a major public health issue. The death rate
associated with opioid overdose nearly quadrupled from 1999 to 2008. Acute care settings …

Objective To examine whether variation in prescribing at the level of the individual physician
is associated with opioid-related mortality. Design A population-based cross-sectional …

Objective To measure physicians' experiences with opioid-related adverse events and their
perceived level of confidence in their opioid prescribing skills and practices. Design Mailed …

Study objective We explore the emergency department (ED) contribution to prescription
opioid use for opioid-naive patients by comparing the guideline concordance of ED …

BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is a significant health problem that affects an estimated 100
million American adults (aged≥ 18 years). Chronic pain affects more individuals than heart …

Background The number of unintentional deaths due to prescription drug overdose has
risen in recent years due to the increased utilization of opioid analgesics. Pain is one of the …

Study objective Increasing opioid prescribing has been linked to an epidemic of opioid
misuse. Our objective is to synthesize the available evidence about patient-, prescriber …