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Opioid Prescribing Behaviors Among Surgical Intensive Care Unit Attending Physicians.
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Abstract
More than 5 million Americans misuse opioids. Six percent of patients who receive opioids for acute pain progress to chronic use; this increases with higher doses and longer prescriptions. Prescribing variation exists within trauma centers and after emergency surgery but has not been demonstrated among intensivists.