High Variability of Opioid Prescribing Within and Across Emergency Departments in the US Veterans Health Administration

J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Nov;33(11):1831-1832. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4588-2.

Authors

Timothy Joseph Sowicz¹, Adam J Gordon², Walid F Gellad³, Xinhua Zhao⁴, Hongwei Zhang³, Thomas Emmendorfer⁴, Chester B Good⁴

Affiliations

¹ VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, VA Pittsburgh's Interdisciplinary Addiction Program for Education and Research (VIPER), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. tjsowicz@uncg.edu.
² VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
³ Center for Health Equity and Promotion (CHERP), VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Veterans Health Administration, Pharmacy Benefits Management Services (PBM), Washington, DC, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: Veterans; emergency department; opioid; prescribing.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Analgesics, Opioid / therapeutic use*
Drug Prescriptions / standards*
Emergency Service, Hospital / standards*
Female
Humans
Male
United States / epidemiology
United States Department of Veterans Affairs / standards*

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid