Pain-prescription differences - an analysis of 500,000 discharge summaries.

CONCLUSIONS: The choice of pain relievers is varies regionally and is often in disagreement with approved indications and regulatory guidelines. A pronounced East-West gradient was observed with metamizole use and the opposite with prescription opioids. PMID: 30207223 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Drug Abuse Reviews - Category: Addiction Tags: Curr Drug Abuse Rev Source Type: research