Opioid prescription after pain assessment: A population-based cohort of elderly patients with cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1095-1099

  Barbera, Lisa ^a,b   Seow, Hsien ^b,d,e   Husain, Amna ^a,c   Howell, Doris ^a   Atzema, Clare ^a,b   Sutradhar, Rinku ^a,b   Earle, Craig ^a,b   Sussman, Jonathan ^d,e   Liu, Ying ^b   Dudgeon, Deborah ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Institutefor Clinical Evaluative Sciences   (Canada)

^c Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84863951751     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.37.3068     Document Type: Article

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