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Knowledge Gaps, Opioid Phobia, and Perceptions of Good Death Among Healthcare Workers in Northern Sri Lanka: A Cross-Sectional Survey

2026-05-20

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Palliative care remains seriously underdeveloped across South Asia, and the distance between what people need and what they receive keeps widening. Among the forces driving that gap, two stand out: healthcare workers who are undertrained in palliative principles, and an entrenched opioid phobia that leads providers to withhold or underdose morphine even when patients are in...

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-9743981/v1
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