Scheduled and Breakthrough Opioid Use for Cancer Pain in an Inpatient Setting at a Tertiary Cancer Hospital

Conclusions: BTO/SCH ratios are frequently prescribed higher than the recommended dose. Daily pain scores, BTO MEDDs, scheduled opioid MEDDs, and total MEDDs were higher among the SCC group than the pre-SCC group, but the number of BTO doses/day was lower.PMID:38534934 | PMC:PMC10969060 | DOI:10.3390/curroncol31030101

Source: Current Oncology - March 27, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Aline Rozman de Moraes Elif Erdogan Ahsan Azhar Suresh K Reddy Zhanni Lu Joshua A Geller David Mill Graves Michal J Kubiak Janet L Williams Jimin Wu Eduardo Bruera Sriram Yennurajalingam Source Type: research