Self-reported vs. actual use of medications in chronic pain patients
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Pain
- Vol. 12 (3) , 285-294
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(82)90160-9
Abstract
Inappropriate or excessive medication use is a commonly observed problem among patients with chronic pain. Comparing patients'' self-reported drug use with actual observed drug use, the incidence, nature and magnitude of drug utulization in a selected population of pain patients are examined and the reliability of patient estimates of their own drug use evaluated. Apparently, patients with chronic pain tend to underestimate their medication use. This tendency is greater for narcotic analgesics than for a variety of other medications taken for pain and is greater for women than men.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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