JAMA Internal Medicine · 2015 · 148 citations · 4 references
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This study shows that contrary to the California Worker’s Compensation data showing a small subset of prescribers accounting for a disproportionately large percentage of opioid prescribing, Medicare opioid prescribing is distributed across many different types of prescribers and specialities.
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The Pareto, Zipf and other power laws
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