Current Clinical Knowledge Decreases Opioid Prescribing for Low Back Pain

General internal medicine physicians who scored in the highest knowledge quartile on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Maintenance of Certification examination between 2015 and 2017 were approximately 20% less likely to prescribe opioids to patients with new-onset back pain than their counterparts with lower scores, according to a cross-sectional study. The results were published in JAMA