Breakthrough cancer pain treatment in Spain: physicians' perception of current opioids utilization and prescription.

Conclusions: These results are of utmost importance as they highlight the need to increase physicians' awareness of BTcP and its management and the need to improve communication with patients and their caregivers. Our findings also indicate the need for future research on the possible misuse of opioids in BTcP patients and its causes. PMID: 32453602 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - May 28, 2020 Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research