Chronic Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care: Factors and Perspectives.

CONCLUSION: Although patients prescribed opioids in primary care have higher risks of opioid-related harms, clinicians report multiple barriers in deprescribing chronic opioids. Future studies should examine strategies to mitigate these harms and engage patients in shared decision making about their chronic opioid use. PMID: 31085523 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: Annals of Family Medicine - April 30, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Tong ST, Hochheimer CJ, Brooks EM, Sabo RT, Jiang V, Day T, Rozman JS, Kashiri PL, Krist AH Tags: Ann Fam Med Source Type: research