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Maureen Saphire

Medicine · The Ohio State University

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Early career · publishing since 2017
Palliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesPain Management and Opioid UseOpioid Use Disorder TreatmentCancer survivorship and carePain Mechanisms and Treatments

Publications

29

Citations

130

Est. group size

~4

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

9

Publishing since 2017

Research summary
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Maureen Saphire's work focuses on managing pain and other distressing symptoms in patients with cancer and other serious illnesses receiving palliative or hospice care. Her studies examine specific drug treatments—such as ketamine, lidocaine, methadone, and topical morphine—looking at how they are dosed, their safety, and their cost-effectiveness. This research is clinically oriented, often based on case series or retrospective reviews from hospital or hospice settings rather than laboratory experiments.

Cancer pain managementPalliative and hospice care pharmacotherapyOpioid use and opioid-sparing strategiesDrug safety (e.g., QTc interval monitoring)Pharmacoeconomics in end-of-life care

Publication output rose to a peak around 2020 and has since settled into a steady but modest pace of about two papers per year.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 1 publication182019: 3 publications192020: 9 publications9202021: 4 publications212022: 5 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 2 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy×10
  • Journal of Pain and Symptom Management×7
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology×3
  • Journal of Geriatric Oncology×2
  • Supportive Care in Cancer×2
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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