The judicious use of opioids in managing chronic noncancer pain

Medicine Today

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 10-18

  Cohen, Milton L ^a   Wodak, Alex D ^b  

^a St Vincent's Campus   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BUPRENORPHINE; CODEINE; DOROTRAM XR; DULOXETINE; FENTANYL; GABAPENTIN; HYDROMORPHONE; JUNISTA; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; OPIATE; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PREGABALIN; TRAMADOL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID; VENLAFAXINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANALGESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG USE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; LIFESTYLE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEDATION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUSTAINED DRUG RELEASE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 77649219920     PISSN: 1443430X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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