Cancer patients' first treatment episode with opioids: A pharmaco-epidemiological perspective

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 340-347

  Jarlbaek, Lene ^a,b   Hallas, Jesper ^a   Kragstrup, Jakob ^b   Andersen, Morten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Research Unit of General Practice   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer patients; Cohort study; Opioids; Pain treatment; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CODEINE; FENTANYL; KETOBEMIDONE; MORPHINE; OPIATE DERIVATIVE; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DATA BASE; DENMARK; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; TERMINAL DISEASE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; EPISODE OF CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOTICS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 33646435541     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-005-0890-8     Document Type: Article

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