Opioid Prescription Patterns Among US Gastroenterologists From 2013 to 2017.

Gastroenterology

Department of Medicine and Vatche & Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address:

Published: February 2020

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