A synthesis of oral morphine equivalents (OME) for opioid utilisation studies

Nielsen, Suzanne; Degenhardt, Louisa; Hoban, Bianca; Gisev, Natasa

doi:10.1002/pds.3945

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A synthesis of oral morphine equivalents (OME) for opioid utilisation studies

Published in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety • Dec 22, 2015

Authors:

Suzanne Nielsen

Louisa Degenhardt

Bianca Hoban

Abstract

PURPOSE: Oral Morphine Equivalent (OME) doses are increasingly being used as a metric to represent opioid use. Driven by a growing need from pharmacoepidemiological studies, the objective of this study was to develop a comprehensive OME conversion table that can be used by researchers to calculate O...

Subject

Medicine

Metric (unit)

Pharmacoepidemiology

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