Opioid utilization among pediatric patients treated for newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia.
Kelly D GetzTamara P MillerAlix E SeifYimei LiYuan-Shung V HuangBrian T FisherRichard AplencPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Additional work is needed to discern whether observed differences in opioid utilization by age and race reflect a difference in treatment or a difference in the experience of pain. Future studies should also explore the factors which guide decisions on opioid selections in an attempt to explain the variability across institutions.