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Patient demographics and clinical characteristics influence opioid and nonopioid pain management prescriptions of primary care NPs, PAs, and MDs.
Abstract
Evidence exists on racial and gender disparities in chronic pain management among veterans. Most literature has described physicians' disparate opioid prescribing patterns, although it is unknown if prescribing disparities exist among nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) or among prescription of nonopioid analgesic strategies.