Accuracy in equianalgesic dosing: Conversion dilemmas

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.