Variations in Opioid Prescribing Behavior by Physician Training

A Call for Better Opioid Prescribing Training and Education

Pain is the most common complaint in the emergency department (ED), and emergency physicians face unique challenges in making opioid-related treatment decisions. Medical students and residents experience significant variation in the quality of education they receive both about opioid prescribing as well as substance-use detection and intervention in the ED. To achieve a better standard of educa...

Could Data Broker Information Threaten Physician Prescribing and Professional Behavior?

CESR-SCHAEFFER WORKING PAPER SERIES The Working Papers in this series have not undergone peer review or been edited by USC. The series is intended to make results of CESR and Schaeffer Center research widely available, in preliminary form, to encourage discussion and input from the research community before publication in a formal, peerreviewed journal. CESR-Schaeffer working papers can be cite...

Physician prescribing of opioid agonist treatments in provincial correctional facilities in Ontario, Canada: A survey

BACKGROUND Substance use and substance use disorders are common in people who experience detention or incarceration in Canada, and opioid agonist treatment (OAT) may reduce the harms associated with substance use disorders. We aimed to define current physician practice in provincial correctional facilities in Ontario with respect to prescribing OAT and to identify potential barriers and facilit...

Emergency Department Attending Physician Variation in Opioid Prescribing in Low Acuity Back Pain

INTRODUCTION Despite treatment guidelines suggesting alternatives, as well as evidence of a lack of benefit and evidence of poor long-term outcomes, opioid analgesics are commonly prescribed for back pain from the emergency department (ED). Variability in opioid prescribing suggests a lack of consensus and an opportunity to standardize and improve care. We evaluated the variation in attending e...

Physician connectivity: electronic prescribing.