Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians.

Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians. Ann Fam Med. 2020 Mar;18(2):156-158 Authors: Louis JS, Eden AR, Morgan ZJ, Barreto TW, Peterson LE, Phillips RL Abstract The American Board of Family Medicine routinely surveys its Diplomates in each national graduating cohort 3 years out of training. These data were used to characterize early career family physicians whose services include management of pregnancy and prescribing buprenorphine. A total of 261 (5.1%) respondents both provide maternity care and prescribe buprenorphine. Family physicians who care for pregnant women and also prescribe buprenorphine represented 50.4% of all buprenorphine prescribers. The family physicians in this group were trained in a small number of residency programs, with only 15 programs producing at least 25% of graduates who do this work. PMID: 32152020 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Annals of Family Medicine - Category: Primary Care Authors: Tags: Ann Fam Med Source Type: research