Use of opioid medications for chronic noncancer pain syndromes in primary care

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 173-179

  Reid, M Carrington ^a,b   Engles Horton, Laura L ^c   Weber, MaryAnn B ^c   Kerns, Robert D ^a,b   Rogers, Elizabeth L ^a,b   O’connor, Patrick G ^b  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Opioid analgesic use; Primary care

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; FENTANYL; HYDROCODONE; METHADONE; MORPHINE SULFATE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INJURY; LOW BACK PAIN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENTAL DISEASE; NARCOTIC DEPENDENCE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; UNITED STATES; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036277897     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2002.10435.x     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Persistent pain and well being. A World Health Organization study in primary care
2. When there is no benchmark: Designing a primary care-based chronic pain management program from the scientific basis up
3. Pain epidemiology and health related quality of life in chronic nonmalignant pain patients referred to a Danish multidisciplinary pain center
4. Primary care and pain medicine. A community solution to the public health problem of chronic pain
5. Chronic pain and use of ambulatory health care
6. Back pain in primary care: Predictors of high health care costs
7. A population-based study of spinal pain among 35-45-year-old individuals. Prevalence, sick leave, and health care use
8. Decreasing disability in chronic back pain through aggressive spine rehabilitation
9. Integration of behavioral and relaxation approaches into the treatment of chronic pain and insomnia
10. Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials of cognitive behaviour therapy and behaviour therapy for chronic pain in adults, excluding headache
11. Exercises: Which ones are worth trying, for which patients, and when?
12. Non-NSAID pharmacologic treatment options for the management of chronic pain
13. Pharmacological approaches other than opioids in chronic non-cancer pain management
14. Antidepressant-induced analgesia in chronic non-malignant pain: A meta-analysis of 39 placebo-controlled studies
15. Anticonvulsant drugs for management of pain: A systematic review
16. The use of opioids for the treatment of chronic pain. A consensus statement
17. Interventional pain management. Appropriate when less invasive therapies fail to provide adequate analgesia
18. Physicians' attitudes and practices regarding the long-term prescribing of opioids in non-cancer pain
19. Clinicians' attitudes about prolonged use of opioids and the issue of patient heterogeneity
20. The use of controlled-release morphine sulfate (MS Contin) in Queensland 1990-1993
21. Australian trends in opioid prescribing for chronic noncancer pain, 1986-1996
22. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies
23. Precription of opioids for treatment of pain in patients with addictive disease
24. Diagnosing addictive disease in chronic pain patients
25. Screening for addiction in patients with chronic pain and "problematic" substance use: Evaluation of a pilot assessment tool
26. Depressive disorders in primary care: Prevalence, functional disability, and identification
27. Epidemiology of depression in primary care
28. Untreated anxiety among adult primary care patients in a health maintenance organization
29. Prevalence and assessment of readiness for behavioral change of illicit drug use among primary care patients
30. Hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption in primary care
31. Male and female chronic pain patients categorized by DSM-III psychiatric diagnostic criteria
32. Chronic pain: Lifetime psychiatric diagnoses and family history
33. Prevalence, onset, and risk of psychiatric disorders in men with chronic low back pain: A controlled study
34. Long-term oral opioid therapy in patients with chronic nonmalignant pain
35. Chronic use of opioid analgesics in nonmalignant pain: Report of 38 cases
36. Prescription opiate abuse in chronic pain patients: Clinical criteria, incidence, and predictors
37. A comprehensive model for the study and therapy of pain: Johns Hopkins pain research and treatment program
38. Opioid pseudoaddiction: An iatrogenic syndrome
39. Opioid analgesics in the treatment of chronic intractable pain of non-neoplastic origin