Pain management of opioid-treated cancer patients in hospital settings in Denmark

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 137-142

  Lundorff, L ^a   Peuckmann, V ^b   Sjogren P ^b  

^a HERNING HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Analgesics; Breakthrough pain; Cancer pain; Cancer pain management; Opioids; Side effects

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BUPRENORPHINE; CODEINE; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; KETOBEMIDONE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; OPIATE; OXCARBAZEPINE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PREGABALIN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; DENMARK; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SWEATING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DENMARK; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37549058852     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01522.x     Document Type: Article

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