Opioid medication management: Clinician beware!

Anesthesiology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 777-778

  Jamison, Robert N ^a   Clark, J David ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG ACTING DRUG; OPIATE;

ANALGESIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MISUSE; EDITORIAL; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 77950865225     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181cdefb4     Document Type: Editorial

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