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An analysis of analgesia and opioid prescribing for veterans after thoracic surgery

The opioid crisis is a public health issue and has been linked to physician overprescribing. Pain management after thoracic surgery is not standardized at many centers, and we hypothesized that excessive narcotics were being dispensed on discharge. As a quality improvement initiative, we sought to u...

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Autores principales: Pommerening, Matthew J., Landau, Aaron, Hrebinko, Katherine, Luketich, James D., Dhupar, Rajeev
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7347859/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32647373
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68303-9