Custom-made capsules and suppositories of methadone for patients on high-dose opioids for cancer pain

Pain

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 141-146

  Bruera, Eduardo ^a   Watanabe, Sharon ^a   Fainsinger, Robin L ^a   Spachynski, Kathy ^a   Suarez Almazor, Maria ^a   Inturrisi, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer pain; Hydromorphone; Methadone

Indexed keywords

HYDROMORPHONE; METHADONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RECTAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SUPPOSITORY;

AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CAPSULES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROMORPHONE; MALE; METHADONE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPOSITORIES;

EID: 0029125290     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(94)00257-F     Document Type: Article

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