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Review article

Treatment of Chronic Non-malignant Pain

Zoran Lončar


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Abstract

Chronic non-cancer pain is a common and serious condition, detrimental to a patient’s functional status and quality of life. Because pain has many causes, a careful differential diagnosis is needed to identify underlying disorders and to develop a therapeutic plan. This is made more difficult by the complex nature of chronic pain, which often has two components - baseline persistent pain and breakthrough pain - that must be independently assessed and treated. In particular, this requires that treatment be tailored to individual patients, with the goal of balancing maximal analgesia with minimal adverse events.

Keywords

chronic noncancer pain; persistent pain; breakthrough pain; analgesia

Hrčak ID:

127303

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/127303

Publication date:

24.9.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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