The Role of the Medical School Training on Physician Opioid Prescribing Practices: Evidence from Ontario, Canada: Le role de la formation a la faculte de medecine a l'egard des pratiques de prescription d'opioides des medecins: donnees probantes d'Ontario, Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent research found that physicians who completed medical school training at top-ranked U.S. medical schools prescribed fewer opioids than those trained at lower ranked schools, suggesting that physician training may play a role in the opioid epidemic. We replicated this analysis to understand whether this finding holds for Ontario, Canada.

Methods

We used data on all opioid prescriptions written by Ontario physicians between 2013 and 2017 from the Narcotics Monitoring System. Using the Corporate Provider Database and ICES Physician Database, which contain medical school of training, we linked patients who filled opioid prescriptions with their respective prescribing physician. Available data on Canadian medical school rankings were obtained from Maclean's

SUBMITTER: de Oliveira C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7502871 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature