This guideline provides recommendations for clinicians providing pain care, including those
prescribing opioids, for outpatients aged≥ 18 years. It updates the CDC Guideline for …

Background Increasingly, patient medication adherence data are being consolidated from
claims databases and electronic health records (EHRs). Such databases offer an indirect …

A re‐examination of clinical principles of long‐term opioid therapy (LTOT) for chronic pain is
long overdue amid the ongoing opioid crisis. Most patients on LTOT report ineffectiveness …

Importance Uncertainty remains about the longer-term benefits and harms of different opioid
management strategies, such as tapering and dose escalation. For instance, opioid tapering …

Importance Patients with chronic pain often receive long-term opioid therapy (LOT), which
places them at risk of opioid use disorder and overdose. This presents the need for …

Background Clinicians' bias related to patients' race and substance use history play a role in
pain management. However, patients' or clinicians' understandings about discriminatory …

Background The overdose crisis in North America has prompted system-level efforts to
restrict opioid prescribing for chronic pain. However, little is known about how discontinuing …

Background Few studies examine how patients with advanced cancer cope with stress. The
objective of our study was to evaluate coping strategies adopted by patients with cancer and …

Background In response to the opioid overdose crisis in the United States, many states
implemented policies to guide opioid prescribing, but their impact on overdose mortality …

Background: Tapering long-term opioid therapy is an increasingly common practice, yet
rapid opioid dose reductions may increase the risk of overdose. The objective of this study …