Health-related quality of life in hospitalized older patients with versus without prolonged use of opioid analgesics, benzodiazepines, and z-hypnotics: a cross-sectional study.

Socheat ChengTahreem Ghazal SiddiquiMichael GossopKnut StavemEspen Saxhaug KristoffersenChristofer Lundqvist

Published in: BMC geriatrics (2020)

Older patients with prolonged CNSD use reported poorer HRQoL. They also had more pain and higher depression scores. Prolonged use of CNSDs was not independently associated with higher HRQoL.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
physical activity
neuropathic pain
sleep quality
postoperative pain