JAMA Neurol
Impact of Preoperative Opioid Use on Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated
A 1980 Letter on the Risk of Opioid Addiction
The New England Journal of Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine commentary by PROP’s Jane Ballantyne and Mark Sullivan on management of chronic pain
Prescription of Long-Acting Opioids and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain
The pronounced increase in prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic noncancer pain has led to escalating concern about potential harms.1 The increase in opioid prescribing is paralleled by an increase in overdose deaths, and there is a dose-related elevation in the risk of […]
Hospital Prescribing of Opioids to Medicare Beneficiaries
Prescribing of opioids at the time of discharge from an acute hospitalization represents an important but under-described potential avenue through which previously opioid-naïve patients may develop long-term use. Read the full PDF article Here