Implementation of an Opioid Stewardship Program to Promote Safer Opioid Prescribing.

Can J Hosp Pharm

, MD, is with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use and the Department of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Published: April 2022

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