Opioid Risk Stratification in an Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic (TH310B)

Approximately a quarter of patients in academic cancer centers are at high risk for opioid abuse.1,2 At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, we sought to create a high-reliability process within our palliative care clinic that risk stratifies our patients for opioid abuse using the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT).

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 23, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Isaac Chua Source Type: research