Efficacy of postoperative epidural analgesia: a meta-analysis.

@article{Block2003EfficacyOP,
  title={Efficacy of postoperative epidural analgesia: a meta-analysis.},
  author={Brian M. Block and Spencer S. Liu and Andrew J. Rowlingson and Anne R. Cowan and John A. Cowan and Christopher L. Wu},
  journal={JAMA},
  year={2003},
  volume={290 18},
  pages={
          2455-63
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:35260733}
}
Epidural analgesia, regardless of analgesic agent, location of catheter placement, and type and time of pain assessment, provided better postoperative analgesia compared with parenteral opioids.
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