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OhioemergencyBackground: Ohio has the fifth highest rate of prescription opioid overdose deaths in the United States. One strategy implemented to address this concern is a state-wide opioid prescribing guideline in the emergency department (ED). Objective: Our aim was to explore emergency physicians...
Opioid-related drug overdoses account for over 60% of drug overdose deaths within the USA, representing a fourfold increase within the past 15 years.1 Ohio has the third highest opioid overdose death rate (24.7 deaths per 100,000) in the country.2 The distribution of take-home naloxone to ...
Study objectiveThe objective of our study is to evaluate the association between Ohio's April 2012 emergency physician guidelines aimed at reducing inappropriate opioid prescribing and the number and type of opioid prescriptions dispensed by emergency physicians.MethodsWe used Ohio's prescription drug ...
A second investigator collected data for 10% of a random selection of the total patient cohort. Both investigators were blind to the hypothesis. We calculated the ĸ-value for inter-observer reliability. 2.3. Interventions USFNB was performed by emergency physicians (EPs) trained in emergency ...
The use of reinforced soft casts allowed parents to manage fractures directly from home, avoiding unnecessary journeys to the hospital. Without using fixed casts, family members could, in fact, remove the soft cast themselves after being educated by physicians at the time of discharge from the ...