Opportunities to Improve Decision-Making About Opioid Prescribing

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. lrutkow@jhu.edu.
² Southeastern Region, Network for Public Health Law, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Editorial

Lainie Rutkow et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Jan.

. 2017 Jan;32(1):3-5.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3847-3.

¹ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. lrutkow@jhu.edu.
² Southeastern Region, Network for Public Health Law, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

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Association Between Initial Opioid Prescribing Patterns and Subsequent Long-Term Use Among Opioid-Naïve Patients: A Statewide Retrospective Cohort Study.
Deyo RA, Hallvik SE, Hildebran C, Marino M, Dexter E, Irvine JM, O'Kane N, Van Otterloo J, Wright DA, Leichtling G, Millet LM. Deyo RA, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2017 Jan;32(1):21-27. doi: 10.1007/s11606-016-3810-3. Epub 2016 Aug 2. J Gen Intern Med. 2017. PMID: 27484682 Free PMC article.

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