| Participants mentioning (N = 26) n (%) |
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Attitudes and practices | Â |
   Does not consider opioid to be first-line treatment | 26 (100) |
   Prescribes to older adults as treatment for chronic pain | 25 (96) |
   Uses cautiously or hesitantly | 24 (92) |
   Endorses greater comfort prescribing to palliative care patients | 19 (73) |
   Viewed as effective therapy for certain older patients | 11 (42) |
Factors that increase likelihood of prescribing | Â |
   Reliable patient and reliable caregiver in the home | 12 (46) |
   Identifiable etiology of pain | 8 (31) |
   History of beneficial results with opioid use in the past | 5 (19) |
Factors that decrease likelihood of prescribing | Â |
   Patient is unreliable or no caregiver in the home | 13 (50) |
   Cognitive impairment | 8 (31) |
   Polypharmacy or impaired drug metabolism | 4 (15) |