Two years after releasing an influential set of opioid prescribing guidelines, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is embarking on a project to measure the extent to which doctors are following “best practices” for opioid prescribing.
The project is intended to answer questions such as what would the opioid prescribing rate be in the U.S. if best practices were followed, according to an email from CDC’s Steven Wurzelbacher that is being distributed to interested parties.
Another question is how much prescribing should change to bring prescribing rates in lin...
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