Maternity Care and Buprenorphine Prescribing in New Family Physicians.

Louis, Joshua St; Eden, Aimee R; Morgan, Zachary J; Barreto, Tyler W; Peterson, Lars E; Phillips, Robert L · Ann Fam Med · 2020

cross_sectional · Level IV

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Abstract

The American Board of Family Medicine routinely surveys its Diplomates in each national graduating cohort 3 years out of training. These data were used to characterize early career family physicians whose services include management of pregnancy and prescribing buprenorphine. A total of 261 (5.1%) respondents both provide maternity care and prescribe buprenorphine. Family physicians who care for pregnant women and also prescribe buprenorphine represented 50.4% of all buprenorphine prescribers. The family physicians in this group were trained in a small number of residency programs, with only 15 programs producing at least 25% of graduates who do this work.

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