Should opioids be prescribed to treat patients with osteoarthritis? Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 180-181

  Cepeda, M Soledad ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO;

ANALGESIA; BACKACHE; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIBIDO DISORDER; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOMNOLENCE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

EID: 48849106067     PISSN: 17458382     EISSN: 17458390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncprheum0758     Document Type: Short Survey

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