Are we prescribing our patients too much pain medication?: best predictors of narcotic usage after spinal surgery for scoliosis

DR Grant, SJ Schoenleber, AM McCarthy, GI Neiss… - JBJS, 2016 - journals.lww.com
narcotic pain medication than patients routinely need. Although narcotics are effective for
severe, acute, postoperative pain… required amount and duration of use post-hospital discharge. …

Analysis of narcotic analgesic usage in the treatment of postoperative pain

K Sriwatanakul, OF Weis, JL Alloza, W Kelvie… - Jama, 1983 - jamanetwork.com
narcotic analgesics, an analysis of narcotic analgesic use … Many patients in our study did
not request pain medication even when they were suffering from fairly severe pain. The nurses …

Long-term use of narcotic analgesics in chronic pain

RD France, BJ Urban, FJ Keefe - Social Science & Medicine, 1984 - Elsevier
… to use long-term administration of narcotic analgesics in addition to our other standard treatments
to maintain acceptable pain … used nonnarcotic analgesics as part of our medication regi…

[HTML][HTML] Pain medication beliefs and medication misuse in chronic pain

BM Schieffer, Q Pham, J Labus, A Baria, W Van Vort… - … Journal of Pain, 2005 - Elsevier
… not developed to apply to prescription use of pain medications. More specifically, the emphasis
… than other patients, would believe in the addictive potential of narcotic pain medications, …

Overprescription of postoperative narcotics: a look at postoperative pain medication delivery, consumption and disposal in urological practice

C Bates, R Laciak, A Southwick, J Bishoff - The Journal of urology, 2011 - auajournals.org
pain medication use preceded their use of heroin. … , including how much narcotic pain
medication is being prescribed after … leftover narcotics and what happens to surplus medication? …

Chronic-pain medications: equivalence levels and method of quantifying usage

SM Steedman, SJ Middaugh, WG Kee… - … journal of pain, 1992 - journals.lww.com
medication use in patients with chronic, nonmalignant pain. Scores are calculated for each
medication based on weights assigned by medication class … of narcotics, we have included : …

Differences in prescription of narcotic pain medication after operative treatment of hip and ankle fractures in the United States and The Netherlands

ALC Lindenhovious, GTT Helmerhorts… - Journal of Trauma …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
… We do not think that this difference is related to the use of narcotics, as we think that it is
explained by the waiting lists for skilled nursing facilities in the Netherlands. This assumption is …

Medication use for low back pain in primary care

DC Cherkin, KJ Wheeler, W Barlow, RA Deyo - Spine, 1998 - journals.lww.com
… The use of narcotic analgesics for chronic benign pain … the choice of medication, the effects
of particular medications on … study, the use of medications by patients with low back pain in a …

Drug utilization patterns in chronic pain patients

JA Turner, DA Calsyn, WE Fordyce, BL Ready - Pain, 1982 - journals.lww.com
Narcotic-sedative patients spent significantly more money on pain medication per month, …
(defined with specific criteria indicating increasing narcotic use, multiple narcotic use, or …

[PDF][PDF] Reductions in pain medication use associated with traditional Chinese medicine for chronic pain

C Elder, C Ritenbaugh, M Aickin… - The Permanente …, 2012 - thepermanentejournal.org
pain among participants receiving TCM can be explained by increased use of pain medications,
or whether use of pain medications … of average pain, narcotics use, and NSAID use were …