Is it ethical to prescribe paracetamol for acute low back pain and osteoarthritis?

Affiliations

• ¹ St Vincent's Clinical School, UNSW Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia. Electronic address: r.day@unsw.edu.au.
• ² St Vincent's Clinical School, UNSW Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ³ St Vincent's Clinical School, UNSW Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.
• ⁴ Sydney Health Ethics, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ⁵ The University of Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ⁶ The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.