Minerva anestesiologica
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Minerva anestesiologica · Oct 2000
Meta Analysis[Systemic review of trials on the use of tramadol in the treatment of acute and chronic pain].
The purpose of the study was to verify the effectiveness of tramadol in the treatment of non-oncologic chronic pain, oncologic chronic pain and postoperative acute pain, applying the principles of meta-analytic analysis to randomized clinical trials (TCR). ⋯ Although the short number of trials which can treated by the metanalytic technique the treatment with tramadol, compared comparison's to drugs (morphine, pentazocine, bupremorphine, etc.) determined a slight improvement in analgesic parameters or at least in analgesic effectiveness.