Effectiveness of long-term opioid therapy among chronic non-cancer pain patients attending multidisciplinary pain treatment clinics: A Quebec Pain Registry study.
Hichem SaïdiM Gabrielle PagéAline BoulangerMark A WareManon ChoinièrePublished in: Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur (2018)
A significant subgroup of patients may benefit from long-term opioid therapy in terms of pain severity and mQOL but the majority do not. The challenge facing clinicians is how to identify who the responders will be.