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Pain and opioids · Diagnosis, Intractability, Risk, Efficacy

DIRE score

Whether long-term opioid therapy is likely to help a person with chronic non-cancer pain.

TellOpioids help most when the pain has a clear cause, other treatments truly failed, and the person's life can hold a controlled medicine safely.

D · Diagnosis
I · Intractability
R · Risk: psychological
R · Risk: chemical health
R · Risk: reliability
R · Risk: social support
E · Efficacy

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