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Table 3 Recommended opioids and their galenic preparation (in% of all recommended opioids)

From: Characteristics of a palliative care consultation service with a focus on pain in a German university hospital

 

Overall opioids

Prolonged-release preparations

Immediate-release preparations

Morphine

87%

70%

25%

Hydromorphone

33%

18%

20%

Fentanyl

31%

37%

1%

Oxycodone

14%

5%

11%

Tramadol

10%

5%

6%

Tilidine

1%

1%

1%

Levomethadone

1%

1%

-

Buprenorphine

1%

1%

-

multiple options possible