<code>MED</code> retrieves the Morphine Equivalent Dose from the Opioid_Table.

Provides details such as Morphine Equivalent Dose (MED),
brand name and opioid content which are calculated of all oral opioids
authorized for sale by Health Canada and the FDA based on their Drug Identification Number (DIN) or National Drug Code (NDC).
MEDs are calculated based on recommendations by Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Von Korff et al (2008)
and information obtained from Health Canada's Drug Product Database's monthly data dump or FDA Daily database for Canadian and US databases respectively.
Please note in no way should output from this package be a substitute for medical advise.
All medications should only be consumed on prescription from a licensed healthcare provider.

Ankona Banerjee

OralOpioids

Retrieving Oral Opioid Information

Erik Stricker

MED function

<dl><dt>Drug_ID</dt>
<dd>A numeric value for the DIN or NDC. Exclude all zeros in front.</dd>
<dt>Opioid_Table</dt>
<dd>Opioid dataset which can be loaded by using
the <code>load_HealthCanada_Opioid_Table()</code> or <code>load_FDA_Opioid_Table()</code> function. The name you use to call the function should be input here.</dd></dl>

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Get the Morphine Equivalent Dose (MED) by using the DIN or NDC — MED

<dl>

<dt>Drug_ID</dt>
<dd>A numeric value for the DIN or NDC. Exclude all zeros in front.</dd>


<dt>Opioid_Table</dt>
<dd>Opioid dataset which can be loaded by using
the <code>load_HealthCanada_Opioid_Table()</code> or <code>load_FDA_Opioid_Table()</code> function. The name you use to call the function should be input here.</dd>

</dl>

MED: Get the Morphine Equivalent Dose (MED) by using the DIN or NDC

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