The following is a summary of “Systematic review and meta-analysis of conventional medical management in a patient population ...

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Specifically, patients who received a daily dose of 400 µg cebranopadol for two days saw a 1.34 mean hourly difference from placebo in their pain scale. The drug also demonstrated a favorable ...

NRS also showed higher reproducibility when measuring pain exacerbations (Cohen's K of 0.86 for NRS vs. 0.53 for VRS) while the reproducibility of the two scales was similar in evaluating ...

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of experience—pain—that inarguably unites ...

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