Prescription and Other Medication Use in Pregnancy [PDF]
, 2018 OBJECTIVE: To characterize prescription and other medication use in a geographically and ethnically diverse cohort of women in their first pregnancy.
Caritis, Steve N. +19 more
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Clinically important drug interactions with opioid and non-opioid analgesics [PDF]
Arhiv za farmaciju, 2019 Patients often seek advise from doctors and pharmacists about pain treatment. Opioid and non-opioid analgesics are the most commonly used drugs in the treatment of pain, but they have potential for pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic drug-drug ...
Vezmar-Kovačević Sandra +4 more
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Non-opioid analgesic poisoning [PDF]
Clinical Medicine, 2003 L'abus medicamenteux des antiinflammatoires, du paracetamol et de l'aspirine est tres important dans de nombreux pays ...
Glyn Volans +3 more
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Barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe [PDF]
, 2010 The Eurobarometer Survey of the <i>EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe</i> is part of a programme of work to produce comprehensive information on the provision of palliative care across Europe.
A. Giordano +20 more
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Analgesic effectiveness and tolerability of oral oxycodone/naloxone and pregabalin in patients with lung cancer and neuropathic pain. An observational analysis [PDF]
, 2016 INTRODUCTION: Cancer-related pain has a severe negative impact on quality of life. Combination analgesic therapy with oxycodone and pregabalin is effective for treating neuropathic cancer pain.
Borghesi, Cristina +6 more
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Designing the ideal perioperative pain management plan starts with multimodal analgesia. [PDF]
, 2018 Multimodal analgesia is defined as the use of more than one pharmacological class of analgesic medication targeting different receptors along the pain pathway with the goal of improving analgesia while reducing individual class-related side effects ...
Mariano, Edward R., Schwenk, Eric S.
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Discovering heterogeneous subpopulations for fine-grained analysis of opioid use and opioid use disorders [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 The opioid epidemic in the United States claims over 40,000 lives per year, and it is estimated that well over two million Americans have an opioid use disorder. Over-prescription and misuse of prescription opioids play an important role in the epidemic.
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Comparison of opioid prescribing by dentists in the United States and England [PDF]
, 2019 Importance: The United States consumes most of the opioids worldwide despite representing a small portion of the world\u27s population. Dentists are one of the most frequent US prescribers of opioids despite data suggesting that nonopioid analgesics are ...
Calip, Gregory S +7 more
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Multimodal Pain Management in Older Elective Arthroplasty Patients
Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation, 2017 Background: Pain management after elective arthroplasty in older adults is complicated due to the risk of undertreatment of postoperative pain and potential adverse effects from analgesics, notably opioids.
Elaine Brooks MN +3 more
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A Knowledge Graph-based Approach for Exploring the U.S. Opioid Epidemic [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 The United States is in the midst of an opioid epidemic with recent estimates indicating that more than 130 people die every day due to drug overdose. The over-prescription and addiction to opioid painkillers, heroin, and synthetic opioids, has led to a public health crisis and created a huge social and economic burden.
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