Intravenous morphine consumption in outpatients with cancer during their last week of life-an analysis based on patient-controlled analgesia data

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 917-923

  Schiessl, Christine ^a,b   Sittl, Reinhard ^a   Griessinger, Norbert ^a   Lutter, Norbert ^a   Schuettler, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer pain; End of life; Morphine; Patient controlled analgesia

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CONTROLLED ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANALGESIA, PATIENT-CONTROLLED; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MORPHINE; NEOPLASMS; OUTPATIENTS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 48249143633     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-007-0352-6     Document Type: Article

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