Interobserver agreement between emergency clinicians and nurses for Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale

Abstract Objectives The Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) is a validated, commonly used tool to objectively quantify withdrawal symptoms, often in anticipation of treatment with buprenorphine. Our primary aim was to determine the agreement between emergency department (ED) nurses compared with...

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Main Authors: Christian A. Tomaszewski, Faith Quenzer, Bryan Corbett, Andrew Lafree, Daniel Lasoff, Jorge Romo, Leslie Mukau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-06-01
Series:Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12462