Article
Adequacy of essential opioid analgesic consumption for anesthesia across 137 countries and territories from 2017 to 2021
2023-06-01
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Introduction: </h4> The Adequacy of Opioid Consumption (AOC) Index uses the human development index (HDI) to benchmark pain management. This does not account for health system factors such as the anesthesia workforce and can misrepresent high consumption as better. We improved the AOC index by adjusting it for physician anesthesia provider (PAP) density to provide a better indicator for pain management and per...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f87577e0-4926-54ae-badf-813f4bec71f2
- DOI
- 10.1101/2023.05.30.23290676
