Patterns of opioid dose escalation in patients with chronic kidney disease initiated on opioids for the treatment of non-cancer pain

• Che Suraya Zin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: juan.jesus.carrero@ki.se (JJC), chesuraya@iium.edu.my (CSZ)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Kulliyyah of Pharmacy, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuantan, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5572-2719

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• Stefania Lando,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ailema González-Ortiz,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Translational Research Center, Instituto Nacional de Pediatria, Mexico City,

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• Viyaasan Mahalingasivam,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department of Nephrology & Transplantation, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

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• Shayan Mostafaei,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1966-1306

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• Wan Rohaidah Ahmad,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pain management Unit, Department of Anaesthesiology, and Intensive Care Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia

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• Mazlila Meor Ahmad Shah,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pain management Unit, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Hospital Selayang, Batu Caves, Selangor, Malaysia

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• Björn Wettermark,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Juan Jesus Carrero

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: juan.jesus.carrero@ki.se (JJC), chesuraya@iium.edu.my (CSZ)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Medical Specialist Care, Nephrology Clinic, Danderyd University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4763-2024

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