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Understanding long-term opioid prescribing for non-cancer pain in primary care: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: The place of opioids in the management of chronic, non-cancer pain is limited. Even so their use is escalating, leading to concerns that patients are prescribed strong opioids inappropriately and alternatives to medication are under-used. We aimed to understand the processes which bring...

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Autores principales: McCrorie, Carolyn, Closs, S. José, House, Allan, Petty, Duncan, Ziegler, Lucy, Glidewell, Liz, West, Robert, Foy, Robbie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4567803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26362559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-015-0335-5