Challenges in Managing and Preventing Pain

Jessica Merlin 2022

Check DK, Baggett CD, Kim K, Merlin JS, Oeffinger KC, Winn AN, Roberts MC, Robinson T, Dinan MA. Concurrent prescribing of opioids with other sedating medications after cancer diagnosis: a population-level analysis. Support Care Cancer. 2022 Dec;30(12):9781-9791. doi: 10.1007/s00520-022-07439-y. Epub 2022 Nov 18. PMID: 36396793

Schiavon S, Davies E, Mildrum Chana S, Scarinci IC, Merlin JS, May J, Cropsey KL. Oncology Patient Smoking Cessation Treatment Preferences: Perceptions Across Former and Current Cigarette Smokers. J Cancer Educ. 2022 Dec;37(6):1975-1981. doi: 10.1007/s13187-021-02068-1. Epub 2021 Sep 14. PMID: 34518990

Ashcraft LE, Moon DJ, Merlin JS, Eack SM, Rogal SS. Quantifying implementation strategy and dissemination channel preferences and experiences for pain management in primary care: a novel implementer-reported outcome. Implement Sci Commun. 2022 Dec 9;3(1):128. doi: 10.1186/s43058-022-00378-z. PMID: 36494841

Rogal SS, Chinman MJ, DeMonte W, Gibson S, Hoyt-Trapp S, Klima GJ, Jonassaint NL, Liebschutz JM, Kraemer KL, Merlin J. Using Intervention Mapping to Develop a Novel Pain Self-Management Intervention for People with Cirrhosis. Dig Dis Sci. 2022 Nov;67(11):5063-5078. doi: 10.1007/s10620-022-07380-4. Epub 2022 Feb 11. PMID: 35147816

Bulls HW, Hamm M, Wasilko R, de Abril Cameron F, Belin S, Goodin BR, Liebschutz JM, Wozniak A, Sabik LM, Merlin JS, Schenker Y. Manifestations of Opioid Stigma in Patients With Advanced Cancer: Perspectives From Patients and Their Support Providers. JCO Oncol Pract. JCO Oncol Pract. 2022 Oct;18(10):e1594-e1602. doi: 10.1200/OP.22.00251. Epub 2022 Jul 25. PMID: 35878073

RofĂ© KL, Marshall BDL, Merlin JS, Trivedi AN, Shireman TI, Schmidt C, Moyo P. Nonpharmacologic management of chronic pain in the United States’ Medicare population: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evid Synth. 2022 Sep 1;20(9):2361-2369. doi: 10.11124/JBIES-21-00467. PMID: 35976050

Jones KF, Khodyakov D, Arnold R, Bulls H, Dao E, Kapo J, Meier D, Paice J, Liebschutz J, Ritchie C, Merlin JS. Consensus-Based Guidance on Opioid Management in Individuals With Advanced Cancer-Related Pain and Opioid Misuse or Use Disorder. JAMA Oncol. 2022 Aug 1;8(8):1107-1114. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.2191. PMID: 35771550

Jones KF, Abdulhay LB, Orris SR, Merlin JS, Schenker Y, Bulls HW. The Relevance of State Laws Regulating Opioid Prescribing for People Living with Serious Illness. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2022 Aug;64(2):119-127. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.05.004. Epub 2022 May 10. PMID: 35561938

Ho JJ, Jones KF, Sager Z, Neale K, Childers JW, Loggers E, Merlin JS. Barriers to Buprenorphine Prescribing for Opioid Use Disorder in Hospice and Palliative Care. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2022 Aug;64(2):119-127. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.05.004. Epub 2022 May 10. PMID: 35561938

Fitzgerald Jones K, Ho JJ, Merlin JS, Weimer M, Sager Z, Kapo J, Childers J. The X Waiver to Prescribe Buprenorphine: The Why and How. J Palliat Med. 2022 Jul;25(7):1021-1023. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2022.0170. PMID: 35775892

Boss RD, Creutzfeldt CJ, Fausto JA, Gonzales MJ, Grudzen CR, Hurd CJ, Kamal AH, Lam DY, Lindvall C, Merlin JS, Reinke LF, Roeland EJ, Rosenberg AR, Sanders JJ, Smith CB, Sullivan DR, Tjia J, Walling AM. Leading from the Heart. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2022 Jun;63(6):e645-e646. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.02.012. PMID: 35595379

Jones KF, Laury E, Sanders J, Starr LT, Rosa WE, Booker SQ, Wachterman M, Jones CA, Hickman S, Merlin JS, Meghani SH. Author Response to Reader’s Comments to Fitzgerald Jones et al., Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Delivering Antiracist Care to Black Americans. J Palliat Med. 2022 Mar;25(3):347-348. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0673. PMID: 35230905

Jones KF, Laury E, Sanders JJ, Starr LT, Rosa WE, Booker SQ, Wachterman M, Jones CA, Hickman S, Merlin JS, Meghani SH. Top Ten Tips Palliative Care Clinicians Should Know About Delivering Antiracist Care to Black Americans. J Palliat Med. 2022 Mar;25(3):479-487. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0502. Epub 2021 Nov 16. PMID: 34788577

Sabik LM, Eom KY, Sun Z, Merlin JS, Bulls HW, Moyo P, Pruskowski JA, van Londen GJ, Rosenzweig M, Schenker Y. Patterns and Trends in Receipt of Opioids Among Patients Receiving Treatment for Cancer in a Large Health System. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2022 Mar 1;20(5):460-467.e1. doi: 10.6004/jnccn.2021.7104. PMID: 35231900

Jones KF, Merlin JS. Approaches to opioid prescribing in cancer survivors: Lessons learned from the general literature. Cancer. 2022 Feb 1;128(3):449-455. doi: 10.1002/cncr.33961. Epub 2021 Oct 11. PMID: 34633657

Merlin JS, Wachterman MW, Becker WC, Bohnert ASB. Serious Illness and Limitations of Death Certificate-Based Data: Urgent Lessons From the Opioid Epidemic. Am J Public Health. 2022 Feb;112(S1):S36-S38. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306409.

Kennedy AJ, Wessel CB, Levine R, Downer K, Raymond M, Osakue D, Hassan I, Merlin JS, Liebschutz JM. Factors Associated with Long-Term Retention in Buprenorphine-Based Addiction Treatment Programs: a Systematic Review. J Gen Intern Med. 2022 Feb;37(2):332-340. doi: 10.1007/s11606-020-06448-z. Epub 2021 Jan 19. PMID: 33469778

Bulls HW, Chu E, Goodin BR, Liebschutz JM, Wozniak A, Schenker Y, Merlin JS. Framework for opioid stigma in cancer pain. Pain. 2022 Feb 1;163(2):e182-e189. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002343

Ho JJ, Jones KF, Sager Z, Wakeman S, Merlin JS. De-Stigmatizing the Language of Addiction #429. J Palliat Med. 2022 Jan;25(1):155-157. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2021.0478. PMID: 34978913

Townsend TN, Bohnert ASB, Merlin JS. Opioid Prescribing to Patients With Advanced Cancer: Unanswered Questions. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Jan 20;40(3):311-312. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.02086. Epub 2021 Dec 8. PMID: 34878802

Kennedy AJ, McGinnis KA, Merlin JS, Edelman EJ, Gordon AJ, Korthuis PT, Skanderson M, Williams EC, Wyse J, Oldfield B, Bryant K, Justice A, Fiellin DA, Kraemer KL. Impact of intensity of behavioral treatment, with or without medication treatment, for opioid use disorder on HIV outcomes in persons with HIV. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2022 Jan;132:108509. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2021.108509. Epub 2021 May 29. PMID: 34130128

Jones KF, Ho JJ, Sager Z, Childers J, Merlin J. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2022 Jan;39(1):101-107. doi: 10.1177/1049909121999783. Epub 2021 Mar 9. PMID: 33685244