Opioid-prescribing practices in chronic cancer pain in a tertiary care pain clinic
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Sex Differences in Overlapping Chronic Non-cancer Pain Conditions in a Tertiary Pain Clinic
Sex differences have been reported repeatedly in pain and response to opioid analgesia with women representing the majority of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) patients as well as a growing population of opioid users and misusers. However, none of these reports has investigated sex differences in the prevalence of overlapping multiple pain conditions (MPC), especially among patients under opioid ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Palliative Care
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0973-1075
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1075.92340