• Curr Opin Support Palliat Care · Sep 2012

    Review

    The challenge of international consensus: defining an opioid essential prescription package.

    • Ernesto Vignaroli and Roberto Wenk.
    • Palliative Care Unit, Hospital Tornu, Programa Argentino de Medicina Paliativa-Fundacion FEMEBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. evignaroli@hotmail.com
    • Curr Opin Support Palliat Care. 2012 Sep 1;6(3):398-401.

    Purpose Of ReviewTo describe a new strategy that aimed to facilitate opioid prescription for better pain management.Recent FindingsThe International Association of Hospice and Palliative Care recently develop a single prescription package (drugs and dosing) with one opioid, one laxative, and one antiemetic for the initiation of opioid treatment in cancer pain and other life-threatening conditions, with the intention to facilitate opioid use, improve patient compliance, and reduce adverse effects.SummaryThe opioid essential prescription package was an international project designed to ensure that opioids are better tolerated by reducing the adverse effects of opioids, which could lead to more sustained improvements in pain management.

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