New guidelines for prescribing opioid pain drugs published
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 05:42
in Health & Medicine
A prestigious panel of pain-management experts representing the American Pain Society (APS) www.ampainsoc.org and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) has published the first comprehensive clinical practice guideline to assist clinicians in prescribing potent opioid pain medications for patients with chronic non-cancer pain. The long-awaited guideline appears in the current issue of The Journal of Pain, www.jpain.org, the APS peer-reviewed publication...
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