The Effect of Opioid Prescribing Guidelines on Prescriptions by Emergency Physicians in Ohio.

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The objective of our study is to evaluate the association between Ohio's April 2012 emergency physician guidelines aimed at reducing inappropriate opioid prescribing and the number and type of opioid prescriptions dispensed by emergency physicians.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Ann Emerg Med

Title: Annals of emergency medicine

Publisher: Elsevier BV

ISSN (Electronic): 1097-6760

ISSN (Print): 0196-0644

Publication date (Electronic): May 20 2017

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[1 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Electronic address: sweiner@bwh.harvard.edu.

[2 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA.

[3 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

[4 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, WA.

[5 ] State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy, Columbus, OH.

[6 ] Department of Emergency Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ.

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Publisher Item ID: S0196-0644(17)30353-0

DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.03.057

PubMed ID: 28549620

SO-VID: 54559454-321e-492e-8259-7a8ec831f34e

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