A new study recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology indicates that palliative care cancer patients are not receiving adequate opioid medication to control pain. Conducted over a period of 10 years from 2007-2017 on 270,000 cancer patients, findings determined that the filling of opioid prescriptions during the last month of life dropped from 42% to 35%, correlated with a significant number of emergency departments visits due to pain increasing during this time period. This translated into an overall 25% drop of daily medication dosage.
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