Opioids for the management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Zeppetella, Giovambattista ^a   Davies, Andrew N ^b  

^a St Clare Hospice   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; FENTANYL CITRATE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; PECTIN; PLACEBO; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADVERSE EVENT; ANALGESIA; BREAKTHROUGH PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG RELEASE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PAIN INTENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TABLET FORMULATION; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NEOPLASM; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; COMPLICATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; BREAKTHROUGH PAIN; FENTANYL; HUMANS; MORPHINE; NEOPLASMS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84899467753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004311.pub3     Document Type: Review

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