Polypharmacy treatment approaches to the psychiatric and somatic comorbidities found in patients with chronic pain.
review · Level V
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Abstract
This review outlines the following: psychiatric and somatic comorbidities associated with chronic pain and their relationship to polypharmacy treatment, indications for polypharmacy in chronic pain, criteria for rational polypharmacy, basic principles of polypharmacy for pain-associated comorbidity, and, based on the above, psychopharmacologic polypharmacy treatment approaches to these chronic pain-associated comorbidities.
Medical subject headings
- Mental Disorders
- Pain
- Polypharmacy