Explore the latest in pain medicine, including the latest in procedural management of back and spine pain and guidelines for use of opioids.
This qualitative study assesses surgeons’ perspectives regarding a change in the default number of doses for opioid prescriptions written through an electronic health record system to adolescents and young adults undergoing tonsillectomy.
This randomized clinical trial compares the efficacy of a multicomponent, group-based, self-management intervention vs usual care in reducing opioid use and improving pain-related disability in patients taking strong opioids to treat chronic pain from nonmalignant causes.
This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2022 clinical practice guideline for prescribing opioids for pain.
This cohort study examines clinical pain trajectories with repeated ketamine administration to explore whether racemic ketamine dose, pretreatment depressive, or pretreatment anxiety symptoms mediate pain relief in patients with treatment-resistant chronic pain.
This cohort study assesses co-occurring pain, psychological, and sleep disturbance symptom trajectories in a diverse cohort of children and the association of symptom trajectory with health care utilization
This cross-sectional study examines the associations of educational attainment, employment status, and mental health with pain episode frequency and severity among individuals with sickle cell disease.
This cohort study uses data from the 2019-2020 National Health Interview Survey Longitudinal Cohort to assess rates of incident and persistent chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain among US adults across demographic groups.
This Viewpoint discusses the 2022 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for opioid prescription in the context of otolaryngology.
This randomized clinical trial investigates the sedative and analgesic effects of intravenous esketamine used before childbirth via cesarean delivery with epidural anesthesia in women in China.
This randomized clinical trial assesses whether patient-reported pain relief was improved with stereotactic radiosurgery compared with conventional external beam radiotherapy for patients with 1 to 3 sites of vertebral metastases.
This systematic review investigates the common risk factors, etiologies, manifestations, and treatment modalities for patients with chronic pancreatitis.
This quality improvement study evaluated the long-term outcomes associated with an opioid-sparing protocol in adult kidney graft recipients.
This cross-sectional study of privately insured women compares postpartum opioid prescription fills after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 with fills before the pandemic.
This cohort study assesses a protocol for eliminating postdischarge opioid prescriptions after major urologic cancer surgery by assessing patients who receive usual, reduced, or no opioids.
This cross-sectional study of a multistate sample of electronic health record data examines the association between primary care visit length and potentially inappropriate prescribing.
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