Opioid prescribing and adverse events in opioid-naive patients treated by emergency physicians versus family physicians: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT: 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 patterns of opioid prescribing by emergency physicians and family physicians and to explore the relation between setting of initiation of opioid treatment and adverse events over the subsequent 2 years. METHODS:This was a population-based cohort study using administrative data from Ontario. Opioid-naive patients aged 15-64 years who received an opioid prescription for noncancer pain from an emergency or family physician between Apr. 1, 2008, and Mar. 31, 2012 were eligible for inclusion. RESULTS:A total of 34 713 and 45 952 patients were initiated on an opioid by an emergency physicians and family physicians,

SUBMITTER: Borgundvaag B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5878958 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature