Resident Decision Making: Opioids in the Outpatient Setting

摘要: P ain represents the chief complaint for nearly half of all emergency department (ED) and outpatient clinic visits in United States, as much it pains first author to admit (being a resident physician himself), residents are frontline clinicians who encounter these patients. Despite available resources, often illprepared manage patients, particularly regard use opioid analgesics. Compared other providers, more likely overtreat abusers analgesics refill prescriptions quickly. The reasons this behavior deserve further scrutiny. In Perspectives article, we ask why may be prescribe opioids pain, provide recommendations educational interventions address this.