Opioid treatment for agitation in patien
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Paolo L Manfredi; Brenda Breuer; Sylvan Wallenstein; Marian Stegmann; Gail Botto
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Background Some patients with advanced dementia cannot convey the experience of pain verbally and may react to pain with aggressive and agitated behaviors. We hypothesized that unrecognized pain could contribute to agitation and that low dose opioid therapy might reduce agitation by