Safety of opioid prescribing among older cancer survivors.

Talya SalzAkriti MishraRenee L GennarelliAllison Lipitz-Snyderman Natalie MorylKathryn Ries TringaleDenise M BoudreauAnuja KriplaniSankeerth JinnaDeborah Korenstein

Published in: Cancer (2021)

To improve safe LTOT prescribing for survivors, efforts should focus on increasing multimodal pain management and reducing inappropriate benzodiazepine prescribing. Different clinical predictors of each outcome suggest different drivers of safe prescribing.

Keyphrases

pain management
primary care
chronic pain
adverse drug
young adults
emergency department
quality improvement