"One Size Fits All" Doesn't Fit When It Comes to Long-Term Opioid Use for People with Chronic Pain.

What it found

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Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Association between supportive interventions and healthcare utilization and outcomes in patients on long-term prescribed opioid therapy presenting to acute healthcare settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC emergency medicine · 2021
   Pooled it
2. Opiophobia: Misinformation, Misconceptions, Misrepresentations, Perspectives, and Consequences.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2025
   Review
3. "Cookbook medicine": Exploring the impact of opioid prescribing limits legislation on clinical practice and patient experiences.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2023
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4. Predictors of Long-Term Opioid Use After Hospitalization for Traumatic Injury in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Population: A 12-Month Prospective Observational Study.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2023
   Observational
5. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the new region-generic version of Fremantle Body Awareness-General Questionnaire.PloS one · 2023
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6. Healthcare provider knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes regarding opioids for chronic non-cancer pain in North America prior to the emergence of COVID-19: A systematic review of qualitative research.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2023
   Review
7. Effects of State Opioid Prescribing Laws on Use of Opioid and Other Pain Treatments Among Commercially Insured U.S. Adults.Annals of internal medicine · 2022
   Article
8. Winner of the Ronald Melzack -Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2022
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9. Implementation and enforcement of state opioid prescribing laws.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020
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10. Canada's hidden opioid crisis: the health care system's inability to manage high-dose opioid patients: Fallout from the 2017 Canadian opioid guidelines.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2019
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11. Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2019
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12. Association between harm reduction strategies and healthcare utilization in patients on long-term prescribed opioid therapy presenting to acute healthcare settings: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.Systematic reviews · 2019
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13. Effectiveness of long-term opioid therapy among chronic non-cancer pain patients attending multidisciplinary pain treatment clinics: A Quebec Pain Registry study.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2018
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14. The utility of universal urinary drug screening in chronic pain management.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2018
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15. Patterns of User Engagement With the Mobile App, Manage My Pain: Results of a Data Mining Investigation.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2017
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16. Chronic scrotal content pain: the experiences of patients undergoing microsurgical spermatic cord denervation.Therapeutic advances in urology
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Abstract

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