Using population-scale medication data to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the usage of analgesics by cancer patients.

Objectives Various analgesics are frequently prescribed to cancer patients for whom pain contributes to poor physical and emotional health and well-being. We examined changes in trends of analgesic prescribing in over 35,000 cancer patients diagnosed in the Welsh population before and during the CO...

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Main Authors: Jun Han, Ashley Akbari, Fatemeh Torabi, Rowena Griffiths, Jane Lyons, Martin Rolles, Catherine Arnold, Dyfed Wyn Huws, Mark Lawler, Ronan Lyons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2022-08-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
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Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/2108