Table 1.

A Complete List of Identified Emergent Themes with Hospitalist Physicians Regarding Opioid Prescribing Practices^*

Perceived success, satisfaction, comfort and the use of opioids for pain management*

Professional experiences influenced opioid prescribing practices*

The use of opioids to improve efficiency*

Skepticism between other physician subspecialty types and opioid prescribing practices

Unintended consequences of patient perceived pain control metrics and opioid prescribing

Lack of trust with patients when reported pain level were not supported with objective data

Resident burnout contributed to a lack of empathy and under treatment of pain

Limited perceived risk of personal opioid prescribing practices and patient overdose with short acting opioids

Unreal expectations by patients to have complete pain eradication leads to overprescribing.

Recognition that patient profiling impacts personal opioid prescribing practices

^*Discussed in manuscript