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Expert decision making on opioid treatment / [edited by] Jane Ballantyne, David J. Tauben.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (x, 145 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199978229
  • 0199978220
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Expert decision making on opioid treatment.DDC classification:
  • 616/.0472 23
LOC classification:
  • RB127 .E97 2013eb
NLM classification:
  • 2013 D-310
  • WL 704.6
Online resources:
Contents:
Pain without a pathoanatomic diagnosis / Catherine F. Stannard -- Opioid therapy of chronic pain in persons with known substance use disorder / Julie Sorensen Franklin, Seddon R. Savage -- Screening before embarking : how to screen for addiction risk in opioid prescribing / Robert N. Jamison, Juliana Serraillier, Edward Michna -- Functional pain syndromes / Claudia Sommer, Nurcan Üçeyler -- Chronic opioid therapy in childhood and adolescence / Lisa Isaac [and others] -- Debilitating pain / Eija Kalso -- Chronic cancer pain / Shane Brogan, Perry G. Fine -- Pain after trauma (including PTSD) / William C. Becker, Robert D. Kerns -- Opioid therapy in chronic painful disease / Daniel Krashin, Andrea M. Trescot -- United States workers' compensation and disability / James P. Robinson -- Using measurement-based tools to improve pain care / David J. Tauben -- Not a suitable candidate : saying no / Jane C. Ballantyne.
Summary: Over the last several decades opioid treatment for chronic pain has become increasingly popular. From the sense that chronic pain had previously been undertreated, to drug companies anxious to sell new ""designer"" opioids, usage has increased several-fold. In its unfortunate history non-specialists were persuaded to prescribe opioids before they could possibly understand the complexity of the treatment. So great were the pressures to prescribe, opioids were prescribed indiscriminately. It became almost impossible to deny opioids without seeming inhumane
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pain without a pathoanatomic diagnosis / Catherine F. Stannard -- Opioid therapy of chronic pain in persons with known substance use disorder / Julie Sorensen Franklin, Seddon R. Savage -- Screening before embarking : how to screen for addiction risk in opioid prescribing / Robert N. Jamison, Juliana Serraillier, Edward Michna -- Functional pain syndromes / Claudia Sommer, Nurcan Üçeyler -- Chronic opioid therapy in childhood and adolescence / Lisa Isaac [and others] -- Debilitating pain / Eija Kalso -- Chronic cancer pain / Shane Brogan, Perry G. Fine -- Pain after trauma (including PTSD) / William C. Becker, Robert D. Kerns -- Opioid therapy in chronic painful disease / Daniel Krashin, Andrea M. Trescot -- United States workers' compensation and disability / James P. Robinson -- Using measurement-based tools to improve pain care / David J. Tauben -- Not a suitable candidate : saying no / Jane C. Ballantyne.

Print version record.

Over the last several decades opioid treatment for chronic pain has become increasingly popular. From the sense that chronic pain had previously been undertreated, to drug companies anxious to sell new ""designer"" opioids, usage has increased several-fold. In its unfortunate history non-specialists were persuaded to prescribe opioids before they could possibly understand the complexity of the treatment. So great were the pressures to prescribe, opioids were prescribed indiscriminately. It became almost impossible to deny opioids without seeming inhumane

WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650

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