General practitioners’ views about opioid management and tapering before hip or knee replacement surgery: a qualitative study
Realisation of potential opioid tapering benefits will require addressing some personal, patient and system level barriers revealed by this study. GPs view support from pharmacists as valuable and welcomed yet the required collaborative models appear, currently, underdeveloped between these primary care professions. Implementation research is a crucial next area of inquiry.
Authors
- Jennifer Stevens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9837-0031)
- Justine Naylor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9147-1312)
- Asad E. Patanwala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3999-4703)
- Stephen Hughes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0315-3603)
- Jonathan Penm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9606-7135)
- Shania Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7047-4621)
Institutions
- University of Notre Dame (US)
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- St Vincent's Clinic (AU)
- The University of Notre Dame Australia (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BJGP Open
- Published
- 2025-12-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpo.2025.0168
- Primary Topic
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00