Pain management strategies for patients on methadone maintenance therapy: a systematic review of the literature.

Published in: BMJ supportive & palliative care (2016)

Treating MMT-maintained patients with methadone for analgesia may be preferable to using other opioid analgesics. However, there are many systems barriers that may make this approach challenging and the evidence favouring methadone over other opioid analgesics is weak.

Keyphrases

pain management
chronic pain
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
patient reported outcomes
bone marrow