So, your loved one is under palliative care due to a chronic condition or because he/she is dying. You look at the spot in the house (or spots) where the medications are kept and wonder: Does everyone else also takes these same medications? What if we lived in another country, would the prescriptions be the same? Would we be able to afford them?
Eduardo Bruera along with Ernesto Vignaroli, M.D. Michael I. Bennett, M.B., Ch.B., M.D., FRCP, FFPMRCA,Cheryl Nekolaichuk, Ph.D., RPsych, Liliana De Lima, M.S., M.H.A., Roberto Wenk, M.D., andCarla I. Ripamonti, M.D., have written a protocol to address just that.
In "Strategic Pain Management: The Identification and Development of the IAHPC Opioid
Essential Prescription Package" the authors surveyed doctors around the world to find out which pain prescription protocol they were using and favoring.
Here is the link to the study:
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/jpm.2011.0296
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