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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Jan 15;116(2):520–528. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24754

Table 2.

Methadone initiation/rotation outcomes – number of successes (complete and partial) and failures of methadone rotation and initiation.

Complete
success		 Partial
success		 Overall
Success 		Failure
Reasons for Rotation
    Pain (n=65) 28 (48%) 30 (52%) 58/65 (89%) 7/65 (11%)
    Pain and Side Effects (n=23) 10 (59%) 7 (41%) 17/23 (74%) 6/23 (26%)
    Side effects only (n=5) 5 (100%) 0 (0) 5/5 (100%) 0/23 (0)
    Logistic (n=3) 2 (67%) 1 (33%) 3/3 (100%) 0/23 (0)
    Unclear (n=4) 2 (100%) 0 (0) 2/4 (50%) 2/4 (50%)
Rotation total (n=100) 47 (55%) 38 (45%) 85/100 (85%)* 15/100 (15%)
Initiation (n=89) 53 (65%) 29 (35%) 82/89 (92%)* 7/89 (8%)
*

p=0.17 for rotation versus initiation