Citation

Lowenstein M, Grande D, Delgado MK. New Engl. J. Med. 2018; 379(6): 504-506.

Affiliation

From the National Clinician Scholars Program (M.L., D.G.), the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (M.L., D.G., M.K.D.), the Division of General Internal Medicine (D.G.), and the Departments of Emergency Medicine (M.K.D.) and Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics (M.K.D.), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Department of Medicine, Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center (M.L.) - both in Philadelphia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Massachusetts Medical Society)

DOI

10.1056/NEJMp1803661

PMID

30089064

Abstract

Although prescribing limits seem like a commonsense approach to restricting exposure to opioids, adoption of these policies is outpacing the evidence, and opioid prescribing for acute pain is not a one-size-fits-all situation...

Language: en