Europe has much to do to improve the quality of and access to safe pain management

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Epidemiology Group, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK; Department of Anaesthesia, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) Pain and Opioids after Surgery (PANDOS) Research Group, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: forgetpatrice@yahoo.fr.
² Department Internal Medicine I, Klinikum Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) Pain and Opioids after Surgery (PANDOS) Research Group, Brussels, Belgium.

Comment

Patrice Forget et al. Lancet. 2023.

. 2023 May 20;401(10389):1651.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00669-4.

¹ Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Epidemiology Group, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK; Department of Anaesthesia, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) Pain and Opioids after Surgery (PANDOS) Research Group, Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: forgetpatrice@yahoo.fr.
² Department Internal Medicine I, Klinikum Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany; Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany; The European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) Pain and Opioids after Surgery (PANDOS) Research Group, Brussels, Belgium.

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Europe has much to do to improve the quality of and access to safe pain management - Authors' reply.
Kalkman GA, Kramers C, van den Brink W, Schellekens AFA. Kalkman GA, et al. Lancet. 2023 May 20;401(10389):1651-1652. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00667-0. Lancet. 2023. PMID: 37210112 No abstract available.

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Kalkman GA, Kramers C, van den Brink W, Schellekens AFA. Kalkman GA, et al. Lancet. 2022 Oct 22;400(10361):1404. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01594-X. Lancet. 2022. PMID: 36273479 No abstract available.