How much does it cost a specialist palliative care unit to manage constipation in patients receiving opioid therapy?

Wee, Bee; Adams, Astrid; Thompson, Kate; Percival, Fran; Burslem, Kate; Jobanputra, Minesh

Wee, Bee; Adams, Astrid; Thompson, Kate; Percival, Fran; Burslem, Kate; Jobanputra, Minesh.

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Wee B; Sir Michael Sobell House, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom. bee.wee@hmc.ox.ac.uk

J Pain Symptom Manage ; 39(4): 644-54, 2010 Apr.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20226620

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Analgesics, Opioid/economics; Analgesics, Opioid/therapeutic use; Constipation/drug therapy; Constipation/economics; Health Care Costs/statistics & numerical data; Palliative Care/economics; Palliative Care/statistics & numerical data; Aged; Constipation/epidemiology; Female; Humans; Laxatives/economics; Laxatives/therapeutic use; Male; Prevalence; United Kingdom/epidemiology

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Palliative Care / Health Care Costs / Constipation / Analgesics, Opioid Type of study: Health_economic_evaluation / Prevalence_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limits: Aged / Female / Humans / Male Country/Region as subject: Europa Language: En Journal: J Pain Symptom Manage Journal subject: NEUROLOGIA / PSICOFISIOLOGIA / TERAPEUTICA Year: 2010 Document type: Article Affiliation country: United kingdom

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