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01.09.2023 | ASO Author Reflections
ASO Author Reflections: Association of Race/Ethnicity, Persistent Poverty, and Opioid Access Among Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer Near the End of Life
verfasst von:
Muhammad Musaab Munir, MBBS, Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, PhD, MPH, MTS, MBA, FACS, FRACS (Hon.)
Erschienen in:
Annals of Surgical Oncology
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Ausgabe 13/2023
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Excerpt
Opioids are often used to mitigate pain related to cancer, especially for patients with advanced stages of disease.
1 The widespread opioid misuse and abuse crisis in the United States has led to the implementation of various regulatory strategies aimed at curbing opioid prescriptions and minimizing associated risks.
2 These policies have resulted in unintentional disparities in opioid accessibility particularly among various racial/ethnic patient populations.
3 In addition, community-level social determinants such as long-standing intergenerational poverty have been linked to inequities in health care access and utilization.
4 To date, the interplay between race/ethnicity and area-level persistence of poverty relative to opioid access and utilization remains poorly understood. Hence, the current study examined the association between race/ethnicity, poverty duration, and opioid use among patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer near the end of life using a nationally representative cohort.
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