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JOURNAL OF PAIN AND SYMPTOM MANAGEMENT
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages 397-406Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3924(01)00271-8
Keywords
equianalgesic dosing; opioids; chronic pain; palliative care; opioid rotation
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The clinical benefit and increased application of opioid rotation has focused attention ob efficacy differences opioids and their respective equianalgesic dose rations. Understanding the differences between the opioids is critical to understanding their equianalgesis dose ratios and for adjusting therapy following rotation potencies of these agents as presented in current equianalgesic charts and to provide pharmacologic information to assist the clinician with opioid rotation. (C) U.S. Cancer Pain relief Committee, 2001.
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