Advances and limitations in the evaluation of analgesic combination therapy

Neurology

Volumn 65, Issue 12 SUPPL. 4, 2005, Pages

  Black, Delbert R ^a   Sang, Christine N ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANALGESIC AGENT; CLONIDINE; DIPYRONE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; NEOSTIGMINE; SUFENTANIL; TRAMADOL;

ANALGESIA; ANALYTIC METHOD; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADDITIVE EFFECT; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG DOSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FIXED DOSE; DRUG INTERACTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG SUBADDITIVE EFFECT; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTATION; FACTORIAL DESIGN; HUMAN; ISOBOLOGRAM; LOW DRUG DOSE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PLUMMER LASKA METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL AID; CHRONIC DISEASE; INTRACTABLE PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALGESICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG SYNERGISM; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 33645049361     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.65.12_suppl_4.s3     Document Type: Review

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