What Factors Affect Physicians' Decisions to Prescribe Opioids in Emergency Departments?

ABSTRACT: Objective: With 42% of all emergency department visits in the United States related to pain, physicians who work in this setting are tasked with providing adequate pain management to patients with varying primary complaints and medical histories. Complicating this, the United States is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. State governments and national organizations have developed guidelines and legislation to curtail opioid prescriptions in acute care settings, while also incentivizing providers for patient satisfaction and completeness of pain control. In order to inform future policies that focus on provider pain medication prescribing, we sought to characterize the factors physicians weigh when considering treating pain with opioids in the emergency department. Method

SUBMITTER: Sinnenberg LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6124837 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature