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What is Oxycodone IR?

Oxyocodone is an opioid medication used to treat moderate to severe pain. The immediate release (IR) preparations is useful for managing acute pain and for pain that occurs in between the dosing of extended release (ER) preparations.

Reasons taken & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons taken # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Other 2 1
chronic pain 2 0
Depression 1 0

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
0 0%
None
1 100%

Dosages

  5mg as needed 15 mg daily 20 mg daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Oxycodone IR (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Doctor's advice
2 100% Doctor's advice: 100%
Other
2 100% Other: 100%

See all 2 patients who’ve stopped taking Oxycodone IR

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Stopped Taking Oxycodone IR

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
0
1
0
0

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
1 100%
Usually
0 0%
Sometimes
0 0%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
1 100%
A little
0 0%
Not at all
0 0%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
1 100%

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Report created on November 23, 2009.