Opioids for chronic pain management in patients with dialysis-dependent kidney failure.

ABSTRACT: Chronic pain is highly prevalent among adults treated with maintenance haemodialysis (HD) and has profound negative effects. Over four decades, research has demonstrated that 50-80% of adult patients treated with HD report having pain. Half of patients with HD-dependent kidney failure (HDKF) have chronic moderate-to-severe pain, which is similar to the burden of pain in patients with cancer. However, pain management in patients with HDKF is often ineffective as most patients report that their pain is inadequately treated. Opioid analgesics are prescribed more frequently for patients receiving HD than for individuals in the general population with chronic pain, and are associated with increased morbidity, mortality and health-care resource use. Furthermore, current opioid prescribing patter

SUBMITTER: Tobin DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8792317 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature