HOW MANY INJURED CLIENTS ARE USING OPIOIDS TO MANAGE CHRONIC (NON CANCER PAIN)?

• In: Poster Session
• At: Düsseldorf (Germany) (2015)
• Type: Poster
• By: GOYAL, Sunita (Accident Compensation Corporation (New Zealand), Clinical Services Directorate (Corporate Clinical Advice), Wellington, New Zealand)
• Co-author(s): Sunita Goyal
  
• Abstract:

  The Accident Compensation of New Zealand provides a ‘no fault’ insurance coverage for all injuries caused by accident, treatment injury or gradual process conditions in New Zealand.
  

  Chronic pain is a common outcome after injury. The pharmaceutical team in ACC identified that many injured clients appeared be taking opioids, long term, to manage

  
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