Palliative care 2017

Opioids & life expectancy?

Median survival in home care in function of daily morphine dose

10 15 20 25 30 35 40

0 5

not

5-299 300-599 >600

morphine mg/day

P = 0,002 Mantel-Cox P=0,029 Breslow-analysis

Bercovitch et al. Cancer 2004; 101 (6):1473-7