Limiting Acetaminophen Dose in Combo Medications Beneficial
Limiting acetaminophen in prescription acetaminophen and opioid products linked to reduction in rate of hospitalization, proportion of acute liver failure cases
Limiting acetaminophen in prescription acetaminophen and opioid products linked to reduction in rate of hospitalization, proportion of acute liver failure cases
Strong recommendation made against long-term opioid therapy, especially for younger age groups, those with substance use disorder
Postoperative opioid prescriptions are associated with delayed recovery, perioperative complications, and opioid misuse, investigators noted.
Significant decreases seen in the number of opioids prescribed, conversion to long-term opioid use seen
For men aged 65 to 74 and 75 years or older, drug overdose death rates were higher for non-Hispanic Black men
Reduction seen in rate of one or more opioid days and in the rate of one or more pain-related hospital events
Benefits and risk of all treatment options should be considered in the context of patient circumstances
Declines in opioid prescribing outpacing increases in receipt of nonopioid therapies
Pain requiring opioids is more common among patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma compared with a matched control group of patients without cancer, a study found.
Older adults are especially prone to inappropriate polypharmacy because they commonly have multiple medical problems and see a variety of specialists.