Assessing reasons for decreased primary care access for individuals on prescribed opioids: an audit study.

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Abstract

Many primary care clinics are resistant to accept new patients taking prescription opioids for chronic pain. It is unclear how much of this practice is specific to individuals who may be perceived to have aberrant opioid use. This study sought to determine whether clinics are more or less willing to accept and prescribe opioids to patients depending on whether their history is more or less suggestive of aberrant opioid use by conducting an audit survey of primary care clinics in 9 states from May to July 2019. Simulated patients taking opioids for chronic pain called each clinic twice, giving one of 2 scenarios for needing a new provider: their previous physician had either (1) retired or (2) stopped prescribing opioids for unspecified reasons. Clinic willingness to contin

SUBMITTER: Lagisetty P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8049881 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature