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Incorporating Discussions of Cannabis Use Into Oncology Care Visits

Incorporating Discussions of Cannabis Use Into Oncology Care Visits

By Laura Joszt, MA

September 15th 2024

The legalization of recreational marijuana in Minnesota has created daily conversations about how to incorporate the use of cannabis into treatment plans for patients with cancer, explained Marie Parish, PharmD, BCOP, of Mayo Clinic.

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Using Cannabis as a Bridge for Symptom Management in Cancer

By Laura Joszt, MA

August 22nd 2024

Discoveries on Temperature and Touch Win Nobel in Medicine

Discoveries on Temperature and Touch Win Nobel in Medicine

By Mary Caffrey

October 4th 2021

The Top 5 Most-Read Pain Management Stories of 2020

The Top 5 Most-Read Pain Management Stories of 2020

December 30th 2020

How Patients Think About Pain May Impact Activity Levels, Study Says

How Patients Think About Pain May Impact Activity Levels, Study Says

December 22nd 2020

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May 17th 2017

Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain in a Community-Based Healthcare System

Robert J. Romanelli, PhD Laurence I. Ikeda, MD Braden Lynch, PharmD Terri Craig, PharmD Joseph C. Cappelleri, PhD Trevor Jukes, MS Denis Y. Ishisaka, PharmD

This study identified populations with non-cancer chronic pain to determine which patients may be more likely to receive an opioid prescription in an outpatient setting.

May 17th 2017

HCAHPS Pain Scores Not Associated With Opioid Prescribing After Surgery

Christina Mattina

A new study in JAMA has found that patient-reported pain satisfaction scores on Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) surveys are not associated with rates of opioid prescribing after surgery.

April 23rd 2017

Provider Type and Management of Common Visits in Primary Care

Douglas W. Roblin, PhD Hangsheng Liu, PhD Lee F. Cromwell, MS Michael Robbins, PhD Brandi E. Robinson, MPH David Auerbach, PhD Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH

In primary care, nurse practitioners and physician assistants do not necessarily order more ancillary services, or more costly services among alternatives, than physicians.

April 17th 2017

What We're Reading: Opioid Alternative; Indiana's Medicaid Expansion; Maine to Link Work to Medicaid

March 31st 2017

What We're Reading: Latest in Medicaid Expansion; Pain Treatment; Anthem May Exit ACA

Allison Silvers Discusses the Importance of Palliative Care Integration for Complex Patients

March 31st 2017

Allison Silvers Discusses the Importance of Palliative Care Integration for Complex Patients

Palliative care can help alleviate the suffering and symptoms that go along with serious disease, making it an important component when caring for complex, high-need patients, said Allison Silvers, vice president of payment and policy at the Center to Advance Palliative Care.

February 20th 2017

Report Finds Patients Want Engagement to Manage Chronic Conditions

Two surveys, one each for patients and providers, reveal gaps between patient confidence to manage disease or pain and what they'd like to see from their physicians.

February 10th 2017

Patient Characteristics and Healthcare Utilization of a Chronic Pain Population Within an Integrated Healthcare System

Robert J. Romanelli, PhD Sonali N. Shah, RPh, MBA, MPH Laurence Ikeda, MD Braden Lynch, PharmD, MS, CPEHR Terri L. Craig, PharmD, CPEHR Joseph C. Cappelleri, PhD, MPH, MS Trevor Jukes, MS Denis Ishisaka, PharmD, MS

This study describes the patient characteristics and healthcare utilization of a chronic pain population within an integrated healthcare system in northern California.

January 29th 2017

OxyContin Maker Purdue to Fund Upgrade of Virginia Prescription Monitoring System

Christina Mattina

The collaboration between Purdue Pharma and the Virginia Department of Health comes about 2 months after Governor Terry McAuliffe declared the state’s opioid addiction crisis a public health emergency.

November 18th 2016

AJMC in the Press, November 18, 2016

A review of our peer-reviewed research in the healthcare and mainstream press.

November 16th 2016

Online Support Tools Teach Self-Management for Teens With Juvenile Arthritis

Christina Mattina

At the Annual Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology in Washington, DC, several experts presented their progress in harnessing technology to help teenagers and young adults manage their juvenile arthritis.

September 20th 2016

Opportunities to Improve the Value of Outpatient Surgical Care

Feryal Erhun, PhD Elizabeth Malcolm, MD, MSHS Maziyar Kalani, MD Kimberly Brayton, MD, JD, MS Christine Nguyen, MD, MS Steven M. Asch, MD, MPH Terry Platchek, MD Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH

Outpatient surgeries in the United States account for roughly 7% of annual healthcare expenditures. To exploit substantial opportunities to improve the value of outpatient surgical care, the authors composed an evidence-based care delivery composite for national discussion and pilot testing.

September 3rd 2016

Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Opioid Prescribing During ED Visits for Pain

Non-Hispanic blacks are less likely to receive opioid prescription at discharge during emergency room visits for back pain and abdominal pain compared with non-Hispanic whites, researchers found.

July 30th 2016

Risk of Chronic Opioid Use Rises Among Opioid-Naïve Patients After Surgery

Some surgical procedures were associated with an increased risk of chronic opioid use among patients who had never used opioids prior to surgery.

July 17th 2016

Addressing Substance Use Disorders and Improving Access to Treatment

The Pew Charitable Trusts has proposed several ideas to address substance use disorders by focusing on developing and supporting policies such as the proposed rule to increase the patient limit for qualifying physicians to treat opioid use disorders.

May 25th 2016

Study Finds a Dramatic Shift in Payments for Opioids

A major shift in expenditures by payer type for opioid pain relievers occurred along with a 4-fold increase in overdose deaths from opioids in the United States.

May 8th 2016

Motivational Interviews Reduce Risky Opioid Use

There may be an inexpensive way to reduce the risky use of pain medications by people at high risk of overdosing: using trained therapists in the emergency department to provide motivational interviews.

April 10th 2016

Ofirmev Decreases Length of Stay, Costs Compared With Traditional Opioids After Surgery

The intravenous acetaminophen Ofirmev has been shown to decrease hospital length of stay, opioid-related complications, and overall costs compared with traditional opioid analgesics.

March 15th 2016

CDC Gives Primary Care Doctors Guideline on Prescribing Opioids

The guideline is designed to improve decision-making when prescribing pain medication. CDC authors note that the sheer rise of opioid prescriptions cannot be explained by the underlying health status of the population.

February 5th 2016

New Opioid Use High Among Older Adults With COPD

Study finds new opioid use high among adults with COPD, raising safety concerns in this vulnerable population.

November 3rd 2015

Report Uncovers Rising Death Rates Among Whites at Midlife, Citing Addiction, Suicide, and Pain

Mary K. Caffrey

This year's Nobel Prize winner in economics and his wife uncover sad statistics on how substance abuse and suicide are taking their toll on white Americans at midlife. Princeton's Angus Deaton speculates that the trends reflect the broader picture of inequality.

August 23rd 2015

The Continued Rise of Opioid Misuse: Opioid Use Disorder

Bill McCarberg, MD, FABPM

August 23rd 2015

The Economics of Opioids: Abuse, REMS, and Treatment Benefits

Jeffrey Fudin, PharmD, DAAPM, FCCP, FASHP

August 23rd 2015

Implications of the Extended-Release/Long-Acting Opioid REMS for Managed Care

James B. Ray, PharmD, CPE

August 22nd 2015

Participating Faculty: Use of Opioid Analgesics in Managed Care Practice: Challenges, Controversies, REMS, and Optimizing Patient Management [CME/CPE]

August 22nd 2015

Post Test: Use of Opioid Analgesics in Managed Care Practice: Challenges, Controversies, REMS, and Optimizing Patient Management [CME/CPE]

July 20th 2015

Most Chronic Pain Patients Use Alternative Therapies, but Many Don't Tell Their Doctors

Kaiser Permanente

A study by Kaiser Permanente published today in The American Journal of Managed Care confirms that patients with chronic pain are seeking complementary treatments, and that if physicians must ask if they want to know about them.

July 4th 2015

25% of Patients Prescribed Opioids End Up Using the Drugs Long Term

Nearly one-fourth of patients with an opioid prescription for use for chronic pain will end up using the drugs in the long term, according to the result of a new study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

June 14th 2015

A Third of the World's Population Has More Than 5 Health Problems

Laura Joszt, MA

With a growing world population and a growing proportion of elderly, more people are living in suboptimal health around the world. A third of the world's population experienced more than 5 ailments in 2013, according to a study published in The Lancet.

April 21st 2015

Congress Seeks Tougher FDA Approval Process for Opioids

New legislation introduced by a bipartisan group of US senators would make it more difficult for new and generic opioid drugs to obtain the approval of the FDA.

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