TY  - JOUR
T1  - Improving opioid prescribing: The new york city recommendations
AU  - Juurlink DN, Dhalla IA, Nelson LS
Y1  - 2013/03/06
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2013.1139
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 879
EP  - 880
VL  - 309
IS  - 9
N2  - 
On January 10, 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced new guidelines for the prescribing of opioid analgesics to patients being discharged from the city's emergency departments. The guidelines were developed by a panel of emergency physicians and are intended to reduce opioid addiction and overdose deaths while preserving access to opioids for patients in whom the benefits are expected to exceed the harms. Because most opioids are prescribed by primary care physicians, the introduction of these guidelines alone is unlikely to effect a large decrease in opioid-related harm. Nevertheless, it is worth considering why such guidelines are necessary and what complementary actions physicians, patients, and health authorities should take to address the increasing problem of opioid-related harm.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2013.1139
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.1139
ER  -