Oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs versus other oral analgesic agents for acute soft tissue injury

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Jones, Peter ^a   Dalziel, Stuart R ^b   Lamdin, Rain ^a   Miles Chan, Jennifer L ^c   Frampton, Christopher ^d  

^a AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; DEXTROPROPOXYPHENE; DICLOFENAC; DIFLUNISAL; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL; VALDECOXIB; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANALGESIA; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPEPSIA; ETHNICITY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MORTALITY; MUSCLE INJURY; NAUSEA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SOMNOLENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VERTIGO; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING; ACUTE DISEASE; CONTUSIONS; META ANALYSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; TIME TO TREATMENT;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CONTUSIONS; HUMANS; PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; SPRAINS AND STRAINS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT;

EID: 84957425487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007789.pub2     Document Type: Review

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