USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy: Want Safer Prescribing? Provide Doctors With a Plan for Helping Patients in Pain
January 12, 2024
January 12, 2024
LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California's Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics issued the following news release:
Physicians who are notified that a patient has died of a drug overdose are more judicious in issuing controlled substances if the notification includes a plan for what to do during subsequent patient visits, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.
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Physicians who are notified that a patient has died of a drug overdose are more judicious in issuing controlled substances if the notification includes a plan for what to do during subsequent patient visits, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.
Compared to a letter with dem . . .