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ReviewCureus2021

Monitoring Pharmacological Treatment in Patients With Chronic Noncancer Pain.

Grisell Vargas-Schaffer, Allen Steverman, Veronique Potvin

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Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 51% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Grisell Vargas-SchafferAnesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Pain Center Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal (CHUM), Montreal, CAN.
Allen StevermanFamily Medicine, Pain Center Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal (CHUM), Montreal, CAN.
Veronique PotvinAnesthesiology, Pain Center Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montreal (CHUM), Montreal, CAN.
Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic pain has been not recognized as a chronic illness, and its far-reaching impacts are often ignored. Chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) is a chronic disease and health care professionals need recommendations on how to monitor treatments, patients and long-term side effects of the different medications used to control CNCP. CNCP patients make up a vulnerable population due to the various associated pathologies and the challenging socio-economic conditions experienced by many of these patients. CNCP is more common among older adults, females, cancer survivors, indigenous peoples, veterans, and populations affected by social inequities and discrimination. These social determinants can lead to a complex interplay between chronic pain, mental illness, and substance use disorders. Given these realities, long-term pharmacological and side effect surveillance is more complex. Follow-up of patients with CNCP is a challenge for physicians, and thus it is important to provide recommendations on how to monitor treatments and long-term side effects of the different medications used to control CNCP.

Indexed as

chronic non cancer painchronic pain managementchronic treatmentmultimodal analesiaopioids in chronic non cancer painopioids useside effects of medical treatment

Identifiers

PMID34912657
PMCPMC8666110
OpenAlexW4200010014

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Registered trials

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