Journal article
Concordance between high antibiotic prescribing and high opioid prescribing among primary care physicians: a cross-sectional study
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance and opioid misuse both present major public health challenges, and identifying high prescribers of both of these agents can help provide a common target for intervention. We sought to determine the association between being a high prescriber of antibiotics and being a high prescriber of opioids in the primary care setting.
METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study of the antibiotic- and …
Authors
Langford BJ; Chen C; Daneman N; Brown KA; Gomes T; Johnstone J; Wu J; Leung V; Garber G; Schwartz KL
Journal
CMAJ Open, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. e175–e180
Publisher
Joule
Publication Date
January 2021
DOI
10.9778/cmajo.20200122
ISSN
2291-0026