Researchers have outlined consensus-based management strategies to guide clinicians who care for patients with cancer-associated pain and opioid misuse or opioid use disorder.
Findings of their qualitative study, published in JAMA Oncology, indicate a need for evidence, education and policy innovation to better serve these patients.
“My collaborator, Jessica S. Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA, clinician in the department of general internal medicine and director of the general internal medicine research fellowship at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and I both work in the field of