Analgesic use in the elderly: The "pain" and simple truth

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 1976-1978

  Graf, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ANALGESIA; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG USE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; LAW; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NOTE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITORS; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG TOXICITY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, DRUG; MALE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 78650147734     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.442     Document Type: Note

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