Pain Management: Opioid guidelines: Helpful for the rheumatologist?

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 242-244

  Fitzcharles, Mary Ann ^a   Shir, Yoram ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OPIATE ADDICTION; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RHEUMATOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; PAIN; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RHEUMATOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 67650379238     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2009.63     Document Type: Article

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