[HTML][HTML] The intersection of drug use discrimination and racial discrimination in the management of chronic non-cancer pain in United States primary care safety-net …

A Cooke, S Castellanos, S Koenders, N Joshi… - Drug and Alcohol …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Clinicians' bias related to patients' race and substance use history play a role in
pain management. However, patients' or clinicians' understandings about discriminatory …

[HTML][HTML] Patient and provider perspectives on benefits and harms of continuing, tapering, and discontinuing long-term opioid therapy

AL Nevedal, C Timko, MC Lor, KJ Hoggatt - Journal of General Internal …, 2023 - Springer
Background Given efforts to taper patients off long-term opioid therapy (LTOT) because of
known harms, it is important to understand if patients and providers align in LTOT treatment …

Associations between high pain catastrophizing and opioid-related awareness and beliefs among patients in primary care

E Onishi, JA Lucas, T Maeno… - The Journal of the …, 2023 - Am Board Family Med
Background: Limited studies are available on patients' perspectives regarding opioid-related
awareness, beliefs, and pain management in primary care settings in the US. Pain …

New Opioid Persistence in Veterans Following Major and Minor Surgery

CS Kiamanesh, MC Fuller, M Lu, EJ Nordin… - Military …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Opioids are often a mainstay of managing postsurgical pain. Persistent use of
opioids for more than 90 days after surgery is problematic, and the incidence of this adverse …

Opioid prescriptions after knee replacement: a retrospective study of pathways and prognostic factors in the Swiss healthcare setting

K Wirth, C Bähler, S Boes, M Näpflin, CA Huber… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The optimal use of opioids after knee replacement (KR) remains to be
determined, given the growing evidence that opioids are no more effective than other …