Side effects from oral opioids in older adults during the first week of treatment for acute musculoskeletal pain

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 872-879

  Hunold, Katherine M ^b   Esserman, Denise A ^a,b   Isaacs, Cameron G ^a   Dickey, Ryan M ^a   Pereira, Greg F ^a   Fillingim, Roger B ^c   Sloane, Philip D ^a   McLean, Samuel A ^a   Platts Mills, Timothy F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIZZINESS; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNSTEADINESS; VOMITING;

EID: 84882745868     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12212     Document Type: Article

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