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Promoting science in a pragmatic world: not (yet) time for partial opioid rotation

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Strasser, F. Promoting science in a pragmatic world: not (yet) time for partial opioid rotation. Support Care Cancer 13, 765–768 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-005-0855-y

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