>Apply EBM to the prescribing of co-proxamol?
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Key messages
* Combinations of paracetamol with centrally acting analgesics are widely
used, accounting for 73% of all prescriptions for paracetamol in a recent
hospital survey in the United Kingdom
* The combination of paracetamol (650 mg) with dextropropoxyphene
hydrochloride (32.5 mg) is particularly popular
* In both head to head and indirect comparisons of paracetamol and the
combination, the combination was no better than paracetamol on its own
* Since the total number of patients in the few published head to head
comparisons was modest, small differences in effect cannot be excluded but
these are unlikely to be of clinical importance
Dr G Mark Trowell
Highbridge Medical Centre
Pepperall Road
Highbridge
Somerset
TA9 3YA
Highbridge - "A cemetery with lights"
(01278) 783220
(01278) 795486 (Fax)
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