Efficacy and costs of patient-controlled analgesia versus regularly administered intramuscular opioid therapy

Anesthesiology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1377-1388

  Choinière, Manon ^c   Rittenhouse, Brian E ^a,b   Perreault, Sylvie ^d   Chartrand, Daniel ^d   Rousseau, Pierre ^d   Smith, Bruce ^d   Pepler, Carolyn ^d  

^a ICOM Health Economics   (United States)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Analgesics; Expenses; Gynecology

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILIZATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DRUG COSTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 2542507816     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199812000-00015     Document Type: Article

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