Predictors of Opioid Prescription Among a Sample of Patients with Acute Musculoskeletal Pain at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Yazed Sulaiman H Al-RuthiaHawazin AlhazzaniGhaida AlhindiMaryam AlarfajLama AlmutairiMiteb AlanaziKhaulah AlokiliNouf Alanazi Faris A Alodaibi Monira Alwhaibi Adel S BashatahYousif AsiriHisham Alsanawi

Published in: Journal of pain research (2020)

Future studies should explore the impact of different opioid prescribing policies to improve the quality of patient care and reduce the unnecessary prescribing of opioids for patients with non-cancer musculoskeletal pain.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
primary care
papillary thyroid
public health
adverse drug
emergency department
neuropathic pain
squamous cell
squamous cell carcinoma
quality improvement
young adults