Efficacy and safety of patient‐controlled opioid analgesia for acute postoperative pain
@article{Walder2001EfficacyAS,
title={Efficacy and safety of patient‐controlled opioid analgesia for acute postoperative pain},
author={Bernhard Walder and M. Schafer and Iris Henzi and Martin R. Tram{\`e}r},
journal={Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica},
year={2001},
volume={45}
}BACKGROUND
The usefulness of intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with opioids for postoperative analgesia is not well defined. [] Key Method Weighted mean differences (WMD) for continuous data, relative risks (RR) and numbers-needed-to-treat (NNT) for dichotomous data were calculated with 95% confidence intervals (CI) using fixed and random effects models.
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