Attitudes and self-reported practices of orthopedic providers regarding prescription opioid use.
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings support a need for targeted education to mitigate the role of orthopedic postoperative prescribing practices on the current opioid abuse epidemic.
PMID: 31343723 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Opioid Management - Category: Addiction Tags: J Opioid Manag Source Type: research
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