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The association between different opioid doses and the survival of advanced cancer patients receiving palliative care

BACKGROUND: Concerns that opioids may hasten death can be a cause of the physicians’ reluctance to prescribe opioids, leading to inadequate symptom palliation. Our aim was to find if there was an association between different opioid doses and the survival of the cancer patients that participated in...

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Autores principales: Sathornviriyapong, Anon, Nagaviroj, Kittiphon, Anothaisintawee, Thunyarat
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/PMC5117570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27871265
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-016-0169-5