A team of researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System surveyed patients to understand barriers to reducing the use of opioids to manage chronic pain. The results of those interviews were published online on May 20th 2016 in the journal Pain Medicine. A release from… Continue reading For Millions on Long-Term Opioid Medications, Change Will Be a Challenge
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ER Patients Need to Know More about Pain Management
Patients in the emergency room want to know more about the possibilities for pain management than their doctors are telling them. They also want to know about the risk of opioid dependency. The study, by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, used semi-structured open-ended telephone interviews with 23 patients… Continue reading ER Patients Need to Know More about Pain Management