Do primary care providers who prescribe more opioids have higher patient panel satisfaction scores?:

SAGE Open Medicine

FrederickNorth¹ 

关键词: Opioid;    prescriptions;    primary care;    patient satisfaction;    prescribing practice;    pain management;    hierarchical condition category;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2050312118782547

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Objectives:Opioid prescribing in the United States has tripled since 1999. At the same time, there has been increasing attention to patient satisfaction. It has been suggested that providers concerned about patient satisfaction may be more likely to treat pain with opioids. We examined primary care providers’ opioid prescribing practices to determine if higher provider opioid prescribing was associated with higher patient satisfaction.Methods:For 77 primary care providers, we compared each provider’s opioid prescription count and amount prescribed to each provider’s patient panel satisfaction measures. Satisfaction measures were obtained from surveys following office visits and consisted of Likert-type scale answers concerning satisfaction for pain management and other provider satisfaction domains. Satisfaction surveys were generated independent of patient complaint of pain and had the aim of overall assessment of patient satisfaction with the provider and the healthcare system. We assessed the correlati...

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