Chronic noncancer pain management in primary care: Family medicine physicians’ risk assessment of opioid misuse

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 22-26

  Kavukcu, Ethem ^a   Akdeniz, Melahat ^a   Avci, Hasan Huseyin ^b   Altuğ, Mehmet ^a   Öner, Mehmet ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Ahmet Atmaca Primary Health Care Center   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Family medicine; Opioids; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

OPIATE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG MISUSE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC PAIN; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHRONIC PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PRESCRIPTION DRUG MISUSE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84927937908     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00325481.2015.993572     Document Type: Article

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