Open AccessA cross-sectional web-based survey of medical practitioners in India to assess their knowledge, attitude, prescription practices, and barriers toward opioid analgesic prescriptions
Author(s) -
Shalini Singh,
Shyam Baboo Prasad,
Sushma Bhatnagar,
Rakesh Lal,
Nandan Choudhary,
Malvinder Singh Sahi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/ijpc.ijpc_83_19
Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , addiction , cross sectional study , opioid , descriptive statistics , family medicine , chronic pain , cancer pain , test (biology) , alternative medicine , psychiatry , nursing , statistics , receptor , mathematics , pathology , paleontology , biology
Inadequate training of medical practitioners is a key factor responsible for inappropriate use of opioid analgesics.