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SUBMITTER: Vijay A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6534435 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vijay Aishwarya A Rhee Taeho Greg TG Ross Joseph S JS
Preventive medicine 20190317
The United States is currently facing an epidemic of opioid-related deaths, increasingly associated with fentanyl use. Our objective was to characterize rates of fentanyl, general opioid and non-opioid pain medication prescription at a national level in both outpatient and emergency department settings. We used a retrospective cross-sectional research design using data from the 2006-2015 National Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Surveys. Between 2006- ...[more]