Opioid Poorly-Responsive Cancer Pain. Part 3. Clinical Strategies to Improve Opioid Responsiveness
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Managing cancer pain poorly responsive to systemic opioid therapy.
Large surveys of populations with cancer pain indicate that as many as 90% of patients can attain adequate relief of pain using optimal, systemic, opioid-based pharmacotherapy. Skilled clinicians should be able to achieve this benchmark and should also be knowledgeable about the variety of clinical strategies that may be used to manage pain in those patients who are poorly responsive to routine...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/s0885-3924(01)00250-0