Palliative Pharmacotherapy/Drug-Specific Information/Opioids/Equianalgesic Tables & Opioid Conversions
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Introduction
[edit | edit source]Why Equianalgesic Tables are Broken
[edit | edit source]Most equianalgesic tables assume that one can use the same ratio to convert to and from any two opioids. However, these ratios are not always accurate bidirectionally.
For a good summary of why equianalgesic tables are inaccurate at best, please read "Opioid Equianalgesic Tables are Broken" by Daniel Rosielle on Pallimed.org.