medr

Morphine Equivalent Dosages in R. Used to convert various opioids daily doses to the total morphine equivalent daily dose.

Morphine Equivalent Dosage table

generic	route	key	meq_po	source
fentanyl	iv	fentanyl_iv	200.00000	NDARC
hydrocodone	po	hydrocodone_po	1.00000	UNC
hydromorphone	iv	hydromorphone_iv	15.00000	NDARC
hydromorphone	po	hydromorphone_po	5.00000	NDARC
meperidine	iv	meperidine_iv	0.13333	UNC
methadone	iv	methadone_iv	13.50000	NDARC
methadone	po	methadone_po	4.70000	NDARC
morphine	iv	morphine_iv	3.00000	NDARC
morphine	po	morphine_po	1.00000	NDARC
nalbuphine	iv	nalbuphine_iv	1.00000	UNC
oxycodone	po	oxycodone_po	1.50000	NDARC
oxymorphone	po	oxymorphone_po	0.33333	OPANA
sufentanil	iv	sufentanil_iv	2.00000	NDARC
tramadol	iv	tramadol_iv	0.20000	NDARC

Sources

• NDARC: Table 1
• UNC
• OPANA

Installation

This package can be installed using devtools with the following:

devtools::install_github(build_vignettes = TRUE, "rparrish/medr")

Requirements

Usage

me_data <- medd(data)