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Pitfalls of opioid rotation: substituting another opioid for methadone in patients with cancer pain

✍ Scribed by Natalie Moryl; Juan Santiago-Palma; Craig Kornick; Susan Derby; Daniel Fischberg; Richard Payne; Paolo L Manfredi

Book ID
117478822
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
56 KB
Volume
96
Category
Article
ISSN
0304-3959

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## BACKGROUND. When a change of opioid is considered, equianalgesic dose tables are used. These tables generally propose a dose ratio of 5:l between morphine and hydromorphone. In the case of a change from subcutaneous hydromorphone to methadone, dose ratios ranging from 1:6 to 1:10 are proposed.