Opioid Prescribing Practices Among Plastic Surgeons: Results of the 2019 American Society of Plastic Surgeons Opioid Survey

• Published in: Annals of plastic surgery Vol. 88; no. 6; p. 665
• Main Authors: Oberhofer, Haley M, Rao, Adityanarayan, Carlson, Jacob T, Mast, Bruce A, Simmons, Christopher J, Gutowski, Karol A, Satteson, Ellen S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.06.2022
• Subjects: Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use; Anesthetics, Local; Humans; Mammaplasty; Pain, Postoperative - drug therapy; Pain, Postoperative - prevention & control; Practice Patterns, Physicians; Surgeons; Surveys and Questionnaires; United States; United States

Health care providers play an important role in the national opioid crisis with 40% of opioid-related deaths being attributed to prescription medications (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2018) and as many as half of the opioid pills prescribe...