Patients who do not disclose use of other medications are at higher risk of adverse drug interactions and addiction, according to new research inThe Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. A new article outlines common drug-drug interactionsthat alter how the body metabolizes certain opioids,...
to report high satisfaction with care than nonusers or light users, Brian D. Sites, MD, from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire, and colleagues write in an articlepublished onlineJanuary 8 in theAnnals of Family Medicine. ...
Properly used, opioid analgesics are among the safest and most effective medications in the armamentarium of the head and neck surgeon. Knowledge of opioid pharmacology can help surgeons treat pain aggressively in patients while managing side effects and toxicities. This understanding can also address ...
We compared opioid pain relievers and opioid addiction therapies to 5 other commonly prescribed drug types important to the Medicaid expansion population (antidepressants, antihypertensives, diabetes medications, cholesterol treatments, and contraceptives) and to overall prescription volume. A secondary ...
Reasons for Under-Use of Prescribed Opioid Medications by Patients in Pain Under-use of opioids (20%) was more common than over-use (9%), consistent with research on medication adherence. Patients who under-used their opioids... ET Lewis,C Ann,JA Trafton - 《Pain Medicine》 被引量: 61...
"This research tells an important story about how changes that have been implemented over the past two years related to prescription opioid medications are impacting patient access," the ACS stated. The survey found that 43% of cancer patients take opioids, which is the same amount reported 2 ...
Opioids are a class of medications that have been associated with potent analgesia. Used for thousands of years as effective agents to treat malignant and nonmalignant pain, opioids evolved from simple extracts and alkaloids to potent synthetic formulati
opioidsper seincrease the rate of infectious complications in most patient categories. From a clinical standpoint, important unresolved issues are i) selection of relevant animal models, ii) opioid selection and discontinuation, and iii) the role of coexisting diseases and concomitant other medications....
Testing the 10 most wanted: a preclinical algorithm to screen candidate opioid use disorder medications Matthew L. Banks E. Andrew Townsend S. Stevens Negus Perspective9 Feb 2019 Neuropsychopharmacology The drive to taper opioids: mind the evidence, and the ethics Stefan G. Kertesz Ajay Manh...
All medications were identified using Multum Lexicon drug codes and NCHS generic codes (eTable 1 in the Supplement). Visits for outpatient procedures that are frequently performed with sedation (eg, arthroscopy, endoscopy, surgery, and device insertion or removal) were excluded. We also excluded ...