Benefits, Harms, and Stakeholder Perspectives Regarding Opioid Therapy for Pain in Individuals With Metastatic Cancer: Protocol for a Descriptive Cohort Study

Katie Fitzgerald Jones   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Gretchen White   ² , PhD ;   Antonia Bennett   ³ , PhD ;   Hailey Bulls   ² , PhD ;   Paula Escott   ² , BS ;   Sarah Orris   ² , BS ;   Elizabeth Escott   ² , BS ;   Stacy Fischer   ⁴ , MD ;   Megan Hamm   ² , PhD ;   Tamar Krishnamurti   ² , PhD ;   Risa Wong   ² , MD ;   Thomas W LeBlanc   ⁵ , MD ;   Jane Liebschutz   ² , MD ;   Salimah Meghani   ⁶ , PhD ;   Cardinale Smith   ⁷ , PhD ;   Jennifer Temel   ⁸ , MD ;   Christine Ritchie   ^{9, 10 *} , MSPH, MD ;   Jessica S Merlin   ^{2 *} , PhD

¹ New England Geriatrics Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

² University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

³ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

⁴ University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, United States

⁵ Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States

⁶ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁷ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

⁸ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

⁹ Center for Aging and Serious Illness, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

*these authors contributed equally