Uncomplicated Distal Radius Fractures: An Opportunity to Reduce Emergency Medicine Opioid Prescribing?

Objectives: To assess emergency physician prescribing for simple extremity fractures-specifically, distal radius fractures-and describe the opportunity for reducing opioid prescribing.

Methods: An electronic survey was distributed to 1238 emergency physicians employed by a nationwide practice serving 220 sites in 20 states. The survey presented two plain film views of a simple Colles fracture and asked: "For the last patient you discharged .