Journal article
Trends in Narcotic and Corticosteroid Prescriptions in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the United States Ambulatory Care Setting from 2003 to 2011
Abstract
BACKGROUND/HYPOTHESIS: Before the availability of biological therapies, corticosteroids and narcotics were frequently used in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) because of a paucity of disease-modifying therapies. The increased accessibility to effective biologicals for IBD over the last decade should be leading to less use of corticosteroids and narcotic medications. This study aims to examine trends in prescriptions of …
Authors
Narula N; Borges L; Steinhart AH; Colombel J-F
Journal
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 868–874
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
June 2017
DOI
10.1097/mib.0000000000001084
ISSN
1078-0998