Clinical Knowledge and Trends in Physicians' Prescribing of Opioids for New Onset Back Pain, 2009-2017.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Opioid musculoskeletal pain overprescribing was widespread in the mid-2000s. The degree to which prescribing changed as awareness of the danger grew among physicians with different levels of clinical knowledge remains unstudied.

Objective

To compare the association of clinical knowledge with opioid prescribing from 2009 to 2011 when prescribing peaked nationally with 2015 to 2017 when guidelines shifted away from opioid prescribing.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study included 10 246 midcareer general internal medicine physicians in the United States who saw patients who were Medicare beneficiaries with Part D enrollment from 2009 to 2017.

Main outcomes and measures

Any opioid prescription and high dosage or long duration (HD

SUBMITTER: Gray BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8251502 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature