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Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Opioid Prescriptions at Emergency Department Visits for Conditions Commonly Associated with Prescription Drug Abuse

Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem nationally. In an effort to curb this problem, emergency physicians might rely on subjective cues such as race-ethnicity, often unknowingly, when prescribing opioids for pain-related complaints, especially for conditions that are often associated with dru...

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Autores principales: Singhal, Astha, Tien, Yu-Yu, Hsia, Renee Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4976905/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27501459
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159224