Acute pain: combination treatments and how we measure their efficacy.

Perioperative analgesic strategies are frequently tested using analgesic consumption as an outcome measure. This outcome measure is intuitive and superficially attractive, but has not been evaluated rigorously. Flaws in its use may be one explanation of continuing controversies surrounding the effic...

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Main Authors: McQuay, H, Poon, K, Derry, S, Moore, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008