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Too much or too little opioids to patients receiving opioid agonist therapy in Norway (2013–2017): a prospective cohort study

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Dispensations of opioid analgesics to patients on opioid agonist therapy (OAT) may increase the risk of overdoses. The current study’s objectives are to investigate the dispensation rates and mean daily doses of dispensed opioid analgesics ...
Jørn Henrik Vold, Svetlana Skurtveit, Christer Aas, Kjell Arne Johansson, Lars Thore Fadnes   +4 more
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Temporal trend of opioid and nonopioid pain medications: results from a national in-home survey, 2001 to 2018

PAIN Reports, 2022
. Introduction:. The opioid epidemic persists in the United States. The use of opioid medications is often assessed by claims data but potentially underestimated. Objectives:.
Yun Wang, Dan Wu, Alexandre Chan, Chih-Hung Chang, Vivian W.Y. Lee, Michael B. Nichol   +5 more
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Orofacial pain in oncology: use of a new analgesic peptide tafalgin

Опухоли головы и шеи, 2023
In patients with head and neck tumors severe pain is more common than in patients with malignant neoplasms of other locations. At a third of patients, pain is the first characteristic of the disease, and after diagnosis, one half of the patients are ...
G. R. Abuzarova, R. R. Sarmanaeva, G. S. Alekseeva, S. V. Kuznetsov, A. R. Gevorkov, N. A. Fedorenko, D. A. Zaretskaya   +6 more
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Central nervous system (CNS) medications and polypharmacy in later life: cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Many central nervous system (CNS) medications are considered potentially inappropriate for prescribing in older people; however, these medications are common in polypharmacy (≥5 medicines) regimens.
Natasha Slater, Simon White, Martin Frisher   +2 more
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Subtypes in Patients Taking Prescribed Opioid Analgesics and Their Characteristics: A Latent Class Analysis

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundOwing to their pharmacological properties the use of opioid analgesics carries a risk of abuse and dependence, which are associated with a wide range of personal, social, and medical problems.
Christian Rauschert, Nicki-Nils Seitz, Sally Olderbak, Sally Olderbak, Oliver Pogarell, Tobias Dreischulte, Ludwig Kraus, Ludwig Kraus, Ludwig Kraus   +8 more
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Changes in analgesic strategies for lobectomy from 2009 to 2018Central MessagePerspective

JTCVS Open, 2021
Objective: To evaluate trends in the use of epidural analgesia and nonopioid and opioid analgesics for patients undergoing lobectomy from 2009 to 2018.
Theresa Lo, MD, Robin Schiller, MD, DMD, Karthik Raghunathan, MBBS, MPH, Vijay Krishnamoorthy, MD, MPH, PhD, Oliver K. Jawitz, MD, MHS, Srinivas Pyati, MBBS, MD, FCARCSI, Thomas Van De Ven, MD, PhD, Raquel R. Bartz, MD, Annemarie Thompson, MD, Tetsu Ohnuma, MD, MPH, PhD   +9 more
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Recent Chemical and Pharmacological Developments on 14-Oxygenated-N-methylmorphinan-6-ones

Molecules, 2021
Adequate pain management, particularly chronic pain, remains a major challenge associated with modern-day medicine. Current pharmacotherapy offers unsatisfactory long-term solutions due to serious side effects related to the chronic administration of ...
Mariana Spetea, Helmut Schmidhammer
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The Effect of Postoperative Pain Treatment on the Incidence of Anastomotic Insufficiency after Rectal and Rectosigmoideal Surgery

Prague Medical Report, 2013
The aim of prospective study was to evaluate the pain relief in the postoperative period and consumption of opioid and non-opioid analgesics as a risk factor of the anastomotic insufficiency after rectal and rectosigmoideal resection for carcinoma ...
S. Adámek, Olga Matoušková, O. Polanecký, S. Světlík, J. Skořepa, M. Šnajdauf   +5 more
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Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman, Neehar Parikh, Dan J. Clauw, David A. Williams, Elliot B. Tapper   +4 more
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Clinically important drug interactions with opioid and non-opioid analgesics [PDF]

Arhiv za farmaciju, 2018
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, Vučićević Katarina, Vučenović-Topić Valentina, Rajkovača Zvezdana, Miljković Branislava   +4 more
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