Predictors of long-acting opioid use and oral versus transdermal route among older medicaid beneficiaries

American Journal Geriatric Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 91-99

  Rigler, Sally K ^a,b   Shireman, Theresa I ^a,b   Kallenbach, Lynne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Kansas School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

aged; opioid; prescribing patterns

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; LONG ACTING DRUG; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OXYCODONE; SHORT ACTING DRUG;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; ELDERLY CARE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAID; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; PAIN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUSTAINED RELEASE FORMULATION; TRANSDERMAL PATCH; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; FEMALE; FENTANYL; FORECASTING; HOSPICES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSING HOMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 34547943692     PISSN: 15435946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjopharm.2007.05.002     Document Type: Article

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