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. 2001 May 12;322(7295):1154. doi: 10.1136/bmj.322.7295.1154

Table 4.

Assessment of pain control at end point of each four week intervention period after treatment with transdermal fentanyl or sustained release oral morphine. Values are numbers (percentages)

Pain control Treatments
Crossover
Fentanyl (n=124) Morphine (n=127) Morphine (n=107) Fentanyl (n=123)
Good or very good 50 (40) 24 (19) 30 (28) 37 (30)
Moderate 45 (36) 71 (56) 43 (40) 50 (41)
Poor or very poor 29 (24) 32 (25) 34 (32) 36 (29)