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Characteristics of Office-Based Buprenorphine Prescribers for Medicare Patients

Rohit Abraham, Elizabeth Wilkinson, Yalda Jabbarpour, Stephen Petterson and Andrew Bazemore
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2020, 33 (1) 9-16; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190233
Rohit Abraham
From Boston University School of Medicine, Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Boston, MA (RA); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (EW, YJ, SP, AB).
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Elizabeth Wilkinson
From Boston University School of Medicine, Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Boston, MA (RA); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (EW, YJ, SP, AB).
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Yalda Jabbarpour
From Boston University School of Medicine, Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Boston, MA (RA); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (EW, YJ, SP, AB).
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Stephen Petterson
From Boston University School of Medicine, Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Boston, MA (RA); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (EW, YJ, SP, AB).
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Andrew Bazemore
From Boston University School of Medicine, Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, Boston, MA (RA); Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (EW, YJ, SP, AB).
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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Jan 2020, 33 (1) 9-16; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2020.01.190233
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