Given that opioid addiction for many people starts with prescription medications,
it is important that physicians use caution when prescribing opioids. The number of
opiate prescriptions by emergency physicians has reportedly decreased over the past
several years; however the opioid crisis is still a public health problem. Despite
the education of providers and the presence of published guidelines, there are still
an excessive number of opioids being prescribed from the emergency department (ED).
This study proposed that changing the default settings for opioid quantities in the
electronic medical record (EMR) might decrease the quantity prescribed.
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