Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
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Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf · Jul 2018
Neuropathic pain is not adequately treated in the older general population: Results from the KORA F4 survey.
We evaluated the pharmacological treatment of distal sensorimotor polyneuropathy (DSPN) among older subjects from the general population. ⋯ In the older general population, only a small proportion of subjects with painful DSPN receive analgesic pharmacotherapy. Although not recommended by guidelines for the treatment of neuropathic pain, NSAIDs were the most frequently used class of analgesic drugs.