Balancing pain and analgesic treatment in the home-dwelling elderly

Annals of Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 11-16

  Hartikainen, Sirpa A ^a,b   Mäntyselkä, Pekka T ^a,c   Louhivuori Laako, Kirsti A ^a   Sulkava, Raimo O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b Municipal Hospitals of Kuopio   (Finland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Analgesic; Elderly; Pain

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACETAMINOPHEN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 11144223019     PISSN: 10600280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1345/aph.1E272     Document Type: Article

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