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What GPs need to know about palliative‐care drugs: methadone
Author(s) -
Howard Rachel,
Howard Paul
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.959
Subject(s) - medicine , methadone , palliative care , global positioning system , primary care , focus (optics) , intensive care medicine , nursing , family medicine , psychiatry , telecommunications , computer science , physics , optics
This is the second in a short series of articles that focus on what GPs should consider when monitoring and prescribing specialist‐initiated palliative‐care drugs. Here, the authors summarise the key issues around the use of methadone for pain management.