Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Waivers to Prescribe Buprenorphine and State Scope of Practice Restrictions

Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Waivers to Prescribe Buprenorphine and State Scope of Practice Restrictions

This study uses SAMHSA data to describe the proportions of nurse practitioners and physician assistants with waivers to prescribe buprenorphine for treating opioid use disorder and associations with state regulations restricting their scope of practice.

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2019-04, Vol.321 (14), p.1407-1408
Hauptverfasser: Spetz, Joanne, Toretsky, Christopher, Chapman, Susan, Phoenix, Bethany, Tierney, Matthew
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Buprenorphine
Drug addiction
Letter
Letters
Opioids
Physician assistants
Research Letter
State regulations
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Zusammenfassung:This study uses SAMHSA data to describe the proportions of nurse practitioners and physician assistants with waivers to prescribe buprenorphine for treating opioid use disorder and associations with state regulations restricting their scope of practice.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2019.0834