Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Waivers to Prescribe Buprenorphine and State Scope of Practice Restrictions.
cross_sectional · Level IV
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 30964519.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1001/jama.2019.0834 and PMC identifier 6459110.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Buprenorphine
- Drug Prescriptions
- Government Regulation
- Narcotic Antagonists
- Nurse Practitioners
- Opioid-Related Disorders
- Physician Assistants