The preliminary data was presented by Nathan Cherny, at a session of the ESMO 2012 Congress. The PPT presentation can be viewed online at the ESMO channel on You tube. (22 minutes presentation)

It is important to us the data be as accurate and up to date as possible before proceeding to publication, so we invite you to review the data presented on your country and ask that you indicate if it is fair and accurate or if it needs to be amended. Please view the instructions in the next box below.

Please click on the appropriate link below to access and download the survey data related to your region.

• Africa
• Asia
• Indian States
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Middle East

In a few steps you can contribute to the peer-review process of the survey data:

1. Click on the link to the PPT slides for your region above (you can save it as a pdf on your computer) .
2. Download the questionnaire here that may help you to better control the data and prepare eventual amendments.
3. Review the data presented for your country in the eleven (11) color-coded graphic figures, on the topics listed below:
   

   General information

   Formulary availability of 7 (seven) essential opioids formulations and cost to the patients

   Actual availability of 7 (seven) essential opioids formulations and cost (for a patient with a valid prescription

   Requirement for authority/permission to receive an opioid prescription

   Requirement for authority/permission to write an opioid prescription

   Need for special prescription form and , if so, accessibility to prescribers of those forms

   Number of days of opioid that can be prescribed on a prescription

   "As needed" prescribing limitations

   Limit as to where opioids are dispensed to cancer patients

   Pharmacist limitation to accept no emergency prescription or correct technical errors on a prescription

   The use of stigmatizing language in regulations

    
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    

4. Go to the peer review online form to :

confirm the accuracy of the reported data - OR

Make any suggested amendments, if the data is not accurate: (Please ONLY enter data that should be amended) OR

If there is no report for your country, complete the entire survey questionnaire, with compulsory fields and which is accessible here.

Deadline: Peer review amendments and feedback will be considered until 31 December 2012.

Thank you for our kind collaboration!