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Pain medications profile


Opiod Use among Nova Scotia Cancer Patients

Using the Nova Scotia Prescription Monitoring Program (NSPMP), Judith Fisher with a larger group of investigators have described opioid prescriptions to all NS cancer patients from 2005 to 2010. This included Nova Scotians who were diagnosed with invasive cancer from 1991 onward.

Linking with the NS Cancer Registry, the research has been able to create pain medication profile for cancer on a population level.

Next steps

The ABC-SC team will analyze this data for breast cancer specific profiles.

NSPMP data advantage

The study has no age restrictions and includes all nursing homes and out-of-hospital prescriptions. Only lower level (e.g. Tylenol 1) pain medications and hospital opiods are excluded.

Project investigator:

Judith Fisher and Ingrid Sketris