Within the project activities, Pain Medicine is included in the Curriculum as an Elective Subject within Surgery for students of the 5th year of the Faculty of Medicine, as well as for students of the 3rd year of Health Care. From all this came the graduate thesis Physiology and Pharmacology of Pain, a student of Medicine Vlačić Tea.
Research objectives
- Determine the consumption of non-opioid and opioid analgesics
- Determine the consumption of analgesics in non-surgical and surgical clinics
- Sort clinics by consumption of non-opioid and opioid analgesics
- Assess the specifics of application in individual clinics
The research was conducted at the University Clinical Center of Republika Srpska. Official data on the consumption of all types of analgesics issued by the Clinical Pharmacy for the period from 1.1.2020 were collected. to 31.12.2020. The UCC of Republika Srpska is a tertiary health institution with 1,100 beds, divided into 24 clinics, a breast center, the Institute for Nuclear Medicine and Thyroid Diseases, a service for maxillofacial surgery and an emergency center. A special review was made for the Clinic for Oncology and the Clinic for Internal Medicine, because malignant or