Opioid treatment for non-cancer pain: we need a comprehensive approach.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Impact of opioid-free anesthetic on postoperative complication following gynecological surgery: a meta-analysis.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2025
   Pooled it
2. Effect of opioid-free anesthesia on postoperative nausea and vomiting after gynecological surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023
   Pooled it
3. Pain Medicine and the Opioid Crisis: Time to Own Our Responsibility!European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026
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4. System-level policies on appropriate opioid use, a multi-stakeholder consensus.BMC health services research · 2022
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Corrections and comments

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  Prescription opioid treatment for non-cancer pain and initiation of injection drug use: large retrospective cohort study.2021

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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