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01-04-2019 | Concise Research Reports
A Cross-sectional Survey Using Clinical Vignettes to Examine Overdose Risk Assessment and Willingness to Prescribe Naloxone
Authors:
J. Deanna Wilson, MD, MPH, Justin Berk, MD, MPH, MBA, Pamela Matson, PhD, MPH, Natalie Spicyn, MD, MHS, Anika Alvanzo, MD, MHS, Hoover Adger, MD, MPH, MBA, Leonard Feldman, MD
Published in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Issue 4/2019
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Excerpt
The number of opioid-related overdose deaths has increased concurrently with rising rates of opioid use nationally.
1 Clinical encounters offer an opportunity to provide high-risk patients with targeted interventions,
2 yet clinicians routinely miss the opportunity to deliver risk reduction counseling and naloxone to appropriate patients
3 due, in part, to knowledge gaps.
4, 5 …