Factors associated with early opioid dispensing compared with NSAID and muscle relaxant dispensing after a work-related low back injury.

Nancy CarnideSheilah Hogg-JohnsonPierre CôtéMieke KoehoornAndrea D Furlan

Published in: Occupational and environmental medicine (2020)

During this period in the opioid crisis, early postinjury dispensing was multifactorial, with several claimant factors associated with receiving opioids at first prescription. Prescriber variation in drug class choice appears particularly important, but was not explained by basic prescriber characteristics.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
public health
skeletal muscle
emergency department
decision making
adverse drug