What Should Doctors Prescribe After Surgery?
Background
A February 2017 article published in the New England Journal of Medicine examined variation in opioid prescribing after Emergency Room visits and demonstrated significant variation by physician. 1 The study calculated that 1 in 48 of those who received a prescription in the
Emergency Room continued to receive prescriptions for opioids 1-year later. An opinion piece
in TIME summarizing the article was entitled How Doctors Are Fueling the Opioid Epidemic. 2 Anothe
