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Comment
. 2018 Mar 12;190(10):E300.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.68662.

The 2017 Canadian opioid guideline: already time for an overhaul

Meldon Kahan  1 , Ruth Dubin  2 , Hance Clarke  3
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Comment

The 2017 Canadian opioid guideline: already time for an overhaul

Meldon Kahan et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Meldon Kahan was a core writer of the 2010 Canadian Guideline for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.

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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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