Expert decision making on opioid treatment / / Jane Ballantyne, David J. Tauben
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| Autore: |
Ballantyne Jane <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Expert decision making on opioid treatment / / Jane Ballantyne, David J. Tauben
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, England ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (156 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616/.0472 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chronic pain |
| Chronic diseases | |
| Altri autori: |
TaubenDavid J
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Contributors; 1. Pain Without a Pathoanatomic Diagnosis; 2. Opioid Therapy of Chronic Pain in Persons With Known Substance Use Disorder; 3. Screening Before Embarking: How to Screen for Addiction Risk in Opioid Prescribing; 4. Functional Pain Syndromes; 5. Chronic Opioid Therapy in Childhood and Adolescence; 6. Debilitating Pain; 7. Chronic Cancer Pain; 8. Pain After Trauma (Including PTSD); 9. Opioid Therapy in Chronic Painful Disease; 10. United States Workers' Compensation and Disability; 11. Using Measurement-Based Tools to Improve Pain Care |
| 12. Not a Suitable Candidate: Saying NoIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Over the last several decades opioid treatment for chronic pain has become increasingly popular. From the sense that chronic pain had previously been undertreated, to drug companies anxious to sell new ""designer"" opioids, usage has increased several-fold. In its unfortunate history non-specialists were persuaded to prescribe opioids before they could possibly understand the complexity of the treatment. So great were the pressures to prescribe, opioids were prescribed indiscriminately. It became almost impossible to deny opioids without seeming inhumane. While carefully selected and managed o |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Expert decision making on opioid treatment |
| ISBN: | 0-19-935289-5 |
| 0-19-997822-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814515403321 |
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