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Comment
. 2017 May 8;189(18):E650-E651.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170431.

New Canadian guidance on opioid use for chronic pain: necessary but not sufficient

Andrea D Furlan  1 , Owen D Williamson  2
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New Canadian guidance on opioid use for chronic pain: necessary but not sufficient

Andrea D Furlan et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Owen Williamson reports nonfinancial support from Health Canada and personal fees and nonfinancial support from Purdue Pharma (Canada), Mundipharma International Ltd. and INVIVO Communications Ltd., outside the submitted work. Andrea Furlan is acknowledged in the guideline published in this issue of CMAJ. She participated in the first meeting of the clinical experts in January 2016 but was not involved in the remaining development of the guideline.

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  • Guideline for opioid therapy and chronic noncancer pain.
    Busse JW, Craigie S, Juurlink DN, Buckley DN, Wang L, Couban RJ, Agoritsas T, Akl EA, Carrasco-Labra A, Cooper L, Cull C, da Costa BR, Frank JW, Grant G, Iorio A, Persaud N, Stern S, Tugwell P, Vandvik PO, Guyatt GH. Busse JW, et al. CMAJ. 2017 May 8;189(18):E659-E666. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170363. CMAJ. 2017. PMID: 28483845 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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