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Effect of electroacupuncture on opioid consumption in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: protocol of a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Chronic musculoskeletal pain is common and has been increasingly managed by opioid medications, of which the long-term efficacy is unknown. Furthermore, there is evidence that long-term use of opioids is associated with reduced pain control, declining physical function and quality of lif...

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Autores principales: Xue, Charlie CL, Helme, Robert D, Gibson, Stephen, Hogg, Malcolm, Arnold, Carolyn, Somogyi, Andrew A, Da Costa, Cliff, Wang, Yanyi, Lu, Shao-chen, Zheng, Zhen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22978476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-169