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Pregabalin prescription for terminally ill cancer patients receiving specialist palliative care in an acute hospital

BACKGROUND: Pregabalin is recommended as an adjuvant analgesic for neuropathic cancer-related pain, and may be taken at all steps of the World Health Organization analgesic ladder. However, unlike opioids, pregabalin treatments are limited to an oral administration route. If patients have oral feedi...

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Autores principales: Yajima, Ryo, Matsumoto, Kazuaki, Ise, Yuya, Suzuki, Norihito, Yokoyama, Yuta, Kizu, Junko, Katayama, Shiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5097839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27826454
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40780-016-0063-6

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