Articles: pain-management-methods.
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Drug Alcohol Depend · Apr 2020
Pragmatic Clinical TrialIndependent association of tobacco use with opioid use disorder in patients of European ancestry with chronic non-cancer pain.
The harms associated with prescription opioid abuse have become a public health crisis. There is a need for evidence-based objective markers of the risk of opioid use disorder (OUD) in patients with pain receiving opioid treatment. The objective of this study was to evaluate the independent association of tobacco use and OUD in patients with chronic non-cancer pain. ⋯ Current tobacco use is significantly associated with OUD in patients with chronic pain receiving long-term opioid therapy.
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Attitudinal barriers to pain management are supposed to contribute to the uncontrolled cancer pain in mainland China. The purpose of this study was (1) to investigate the attitudinal barriers to pain management among cancer patients in mainland China, (2) to examine relationships between the attitudinal barriers and patients' pain management conditions in the light of medication adherence and adequacy of analgesic use, and (3) to identify factors associated with the attitudinal barriers. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey, including the Barriers Questionnaire-Chinese (BQ-C) and two scales that measure the medication adherence and the adequacy of analgesic use, was carried out among patients with a variety of cancers. ⋯ The mean scores for the total scale and several subscales of the BQ-C were significantly different by the patients' characteristics, the medication adherence, and the adequacy of analgesic use. The associations with these variables for a given subscale, e.g., the subscale regarding concerns about side effects, were different from those for other subscales, e.g., the subscale regarding fatalism that cancer pain is uncontrollable. The findings suggest that a nurse-led educational program in the light of patients' characteristics is required for overcoming the attitudinal barriers to pain management among cancer patients in mainland China.
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Opioid analgesic misuse and abuse has given rise to an epidemic that has added to an increase in opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Adults with persistent noncancer pain (PNCP) are primarily treated with opioid analgesics. Many remain on these medications long term. Most of these patients are unaware of other effective measures for managing PNCP, such as nonpharmacologic modalities (NPMs). This lack of familiarity with NPMs presents a key contributor to the problem of NPM underuse among adult PNCP patients. This integrative review sought to identify key factors that contribute to NPMs underuse and the effect of education on patients' adoption or use for PNCP management. ⋯ Findings suggest that patient education about NPMs has the potential to motivate patients to try these modalities, which may increase overall use of NPMs for PCNP. Nurses could play a vital role in ensuring evidence-based NPMs are introduced to PNCP patients, which could increase patients' use of these measures and improve outcomes.
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Multimodal pain management strategies aim to improve postoperative pain control. The purpose of this study was to analyze pain scores and risk factors for acute postoperative pain after various abdominal surgery procedures. ⋯ Among 1,278 patients, pain was controlled adequately during the first four postoperative days, resulting in high levels of patient satisfaction. Pain levels were higher at mobilization. Younger age was the only independent risk factor for insufficient pain control. Preventive treatment in patients <70 years old and before mobilization could be evaluated for potential improvement.
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Journal of critical care · Apr 2020
Multicenter StudyAssociation between organizational characteristics and adequate pain management at the intensive care unit.
Half of the patients experience pain during their ICU stay which is known to influence their outcomes. Nurses and physicians encounter organizational barriers towards pain assessment and treatment. We aimed to evaluate the association between adequate pain management and nurse to patient ratio, bed occupancy rate, and fulltime presence of an intensivist. ⋯ Higher nurse to patient ratios increase the percentage of patients with adequate pain management especially in medical and mechanically ventilated patients.