Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy
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J Manag Care Spec Pharm · May 2014
Observational StudyComplexity of pain management among patients with nociceptive or neuropathic neck, back, or osteoarthritis diagnoses.
Approaches to pain management are diverse, requiring prescribers to evaluate an array of clinical issues and potential solutions. In addition to the difficult task of selecting a treatment option, pain treatment may be further complicated by multiple prescribers, multiple medications, and multiple mechanisms of pain origination. ⋯ Choosing the appropriate pain treatment involves assessing currently used medications for existing illnesses and deciding on the appropriate types of pain medications. However, potentially serious drug-drug interactions are a consequence of multiple drug use, and such a potential requires thoughtful consideration by those involved in patient care.