Nondrug interventions effective for LTC residents in pain, review finds
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Alicia Lasek (f3)
May 19, 2022
Certain nondrug therapies rank nearly as high as painkillers for effectively addressing chronic pain in nursing home residents, according to a new study.
Local interventions can reduce opioid Rx after urologic surgery
Apr 18, 2022
A systematic review and meta-analysis show direct interventions have a greater impact on opioid prescribing than indirect interventions
SNF opioid problems didn’t end after prosecutions began
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2022
Despite a string of costly legal settlements with nursing homes for rejecting patients with opioid use disorder, the author of a new study proving widespread admissions denials says post-acute care still...
Most U.S. adults use non-opioids to treat chronic pain: study
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Alicia Lasek
Feb 09, 2022
Most American adults use alternatives to opioid drugs such as complementary medicine to manage their pain, but psychological therapies are infrequently implemented, researchers say.
CBT intervention beneficial for adults with chronic pain conditions
Nov 02, 2021
Group-based CBT intervention produced modest, but sustained, reductions in measures of pain, pain-related disability
Longer waits for PT raise odds of chronic opioid use in knee replacement: study
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Alicia Lasek
Nov 02, 2021
Chronic opioid use is less likely in patients who start physical therapy within 30 days of surgery and have at least six sessions, a new study finds.
22.1 percent of U.S. adults with chronic pain use Rx opioids
Aug 05, 2021
Prescription opioid use highest for those aged 45 to 64 years; more likely among women, unemployed adults
Clinical briefs for Friday, Aug. 6
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Alicia Lasek
Aug 06, 2021
Behavioral nudges increase COVID-19 vaccination … Older adults with prostate cancer often die from cardiac diseases, COPD … Level of amyloid beta in mid-life blood test may forecast Alzheimer’s risk...
Meds won’t ease seniors’ loneliness, but ‘social prescribing’ can help, geriatricians say
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Alicia Lasek
Jul 28, 2021
Some lonely seniors are prescribed psychotropic drugs at double the rate of their non-lonely peers, a new study finds. But these medications may not alleviate their problems, the researchers say.
Physician knowledge linked to less opioid prescribing in 2015 to 2017
Jul 01, 2021
(HealthDay News) — During 2015 to 2017, physician knowledge was associated with less frequent prescribing of opioids for back pain, according to a study published online July 1 in JAMA Network Open....