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Patients who have cancer usually suffer from significant pain the controling of which is a vital problem. Drug therapy with opiate analgesics, especially morphine which is a mainstay of therapy for the patients with cancer-related pain. Morphine is employed primarily as a potent analgesic, but it also presents many other pharmacological activities that result in adverse effects. Reducing the anxiety of potential addiction and minimizing the adverse effects are very important to maximizing the patient's quality of life through their relief. We believe that sufficient instruction in the use of opiate analgesics to patients is indispensable for cancer pain management. By giving such instructions to the patients, less labor was needed and less time to order or write down drug history was indicated. We developed the opiate analgesics recording program in order to support patient counseling using DBASE III-plus. This system can retrieve desired data from the patient's hospital number, the patient's name or the date the prescription was filled. Through this system, we can inspect uses or dosages and explain the predictable adverse effects to a patient during counseling. This system is available for management of opiate analgesics history and instruction in the use of opiate analgesics in patients.
