Shifting From Opioids to Simple Analgesics for Emergency Care of Patients With Low Back Pain
This secondary analysis of a cluster randomized clinical trial examined a guideline-based care model for patients with low back pain, specifically whether physicians switched from opioids to low-risk or high-risk nonopioid pain medicines.
Authors
- Christopher G. Maher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1628-7857)
- Danielle Coombs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0005-7851)
- Claudia Côté‐Picard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1800-1832)
- Gustavo C Machado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8544-0448)
- Qiang Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4384-8226)
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (AU)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- The George Institute for Global Health (AU)
- Institute for Musculoskeletal Health (AU)
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation (CA)
- Sydney Local Health District (AU)
- Université Laval (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Health Forum
- Published
- 2024-09-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2024.3008
- Primary Topic
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00