Response to morphine in male and female patients: Analgesia and adverse events

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-198

  Bijur, Polly E ^a   Esses, David ^a   Birnbaum, Adrienne ^a   Chang, Andrew K ^a   Schechter, Clyde ^a   Gallagher, E John ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Analgesia; Morphine; Sex

Indexed keywords

HYDROMORPHONE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 43149085055     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31815d3619     Document Type: Article

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