Study reveals lack of self-awareness among doctors when prescribing opioids
Emergency department physicians underestimated how often they prescribed opioids, but prescriptions decreased after they saw their actual data
Date:
March 27, 2018
Source:
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Summary:
As health providers struggle to curb the epidemic of opioid abuse, researchers have found that 65 percent of emergency department (ED) physicians surveyed underestimated how often they prescribed the highly addictive pain killers to patients.
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180327093942.htm
