The epidemiology of regular opioid use and its association with mortality: Prospective cohort study of 466 486 UK biobank participants

BACKGROUND: Opioids have, at most, small benefits for non-cancer pain in the medium and long-term but there is good evidence that they cause harm. The current study describes the characteristics and clinical status of people taking regular opioids in Great Britain and determines whether use is assoc...

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Autores principales: Macfarlane, Gary J, Beasley, Marcus, Jones, Gareth T, Stannard, Cathy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Research paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7170951/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32322808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100321

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