Care plans that include opioids provide limited effectiveness in treating persistent pain, according to a project conducted at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
“Consequently, first-line drugs for the treatment of persistent pain should almost always be nonopioids,” said one of the project leaders, Debbie Fabry, BS, RN-BC, SANE, a nurse manager at the Center for Pain and Spine, which is a hospital-based clinic located within Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon,