Doctors get educated in an effort to curb opioid overdoses
Posted on AllSides September 5th, 2022
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Reining in opioid prescriptions is one strategy governments and medical providers have deployed to curb the overdose epidemic driven by opioids. A group of researchers found a even brief teaching video was enough to make a noticeable difference in prescription habits.
Pankti Acharya, a medical student at Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine, worked with a team of researchers who recruited 90 medical residents from Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
They gave those residents a pre-video quiz designed to test their knowledge of opioids and pain management; the test included clinical...