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. 2018 May;33(5):608-609.
doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4353-6.

Combatting Opioid Overdoses in Ohio: Emergency Department Physicians' Prescribing Patterns and Perceptions of Naloxone

Jonathan Penm  1 , Neil J MacKinnon  2 , Michael S Lyons  3 , Erica Tolle  4   5 , Gregory T Sneed  6
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Combatting Opioid Overdoses in Ohio: Emergency Department Physicians' Prescribing Patterns and Perceptions of Naloxone

Jonathan Penm et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 May.
No abstract available

Keywords: drug abuse; emergency medicine; practice variation; substance abuse; survey research.

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Conflict of interest statement

Presentations

This work was previously presented as a poster presentation at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting and Exhibition in Orlando, Florida, in December 2017.

Conflict of Interest

Dr. Lyons has received investigator-initiated research funds paid to the institution from Brightview Health that were sourced in part from ADAPT Pharma, Inc. All remaining authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Naloxone practices for high-risk opioid overdose patients
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