Standard therapy with opioids in chronic pain management: ORTIBER study

Clinical Drug Investigation

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 17-23

  Gatti, Antonio ^a   Reale, Carlo ^b   Occhioni, Roberto ^c   Luzi, Marta ^b   Canneti, Alessandra ^b   De Polo, Claudia ^b   Gubernari, Martina ^a   Mammucari, Massimo ^a   Sabato, Alessandro Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MORPHINE SULFATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; TRAMADOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED RELEASE FORMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GASTRIC MALAISE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SLOW RELEASE FORMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; DELAYED-ACTION PREPARATIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHINE; PAIN;

EID: 65949098403     PISSN: 11732563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/0044011-200929001-00003     Document Type: Article

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