Current situation of palliative care at the community pharmacy in Japan

• At: 2008 FIP Congress in Basel (Switzerland)
• Type: Poster
• By: TAKEHIRA, Rieko (Josai International University, Tokyo, Japan)
• Co-author(s): Yamamura, Shigeo (Josai International University, TOKYO, Japan)
  
• Abstract:

  [Purpose]Most cancer patients take opioids for pain control. Opioids have strong analgesic effect, while they sometimes cause side effects as nausea, constipation, and drowsiness, etc. A management for side effects would be necessary to maintain patients’ quality of life (QOL). To improve the QOL of outpatients with cancer, the community

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