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Pain Management

General Information

NEWS:

10 million Britons suffering pain

Living With Pain

Pain

Pain Poll: Many Americans in Pain

Relationship between Clinical Depression and Chronic Pain

ARTICLES:

Chronic Pain — Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Consumer Confusion Persists on Painkillers' Safety

Living With Chronic Pain

NGC - ASPAN pain and comfort clinical guideline. (2003)

NGC - Assessment and management of acute pain. (2004)

NGC - Cancer pain. (2003)

NGC - Guidelines for the assessment and management of chronic pain. (2005)

NGC - Pain. (2004)

NGC - Pain management in the long-term care setting. (2003)

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A prospective study of acceptance of pain and patient functioning with chronic pain. (Pain. 2005)

Cognitive complaints are associated with depression, fatigue, female sex, and pain catastrophizing in patients with chronic pain. (Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2005)

Do men and women differ in their response to interdisciplinary chronic pain management? (Pain. 2005)

Do patients' beliefs act as barriers to effective pain management behaviors and outcomes in patients with cancer-related or noncancer-related pain? (Oncol Nurs Forum. 2005)

Is Postoperative Pain a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? Expectancy Effects on Postoperative Pain and Patient-Controlled Analgesia Use Among Adolescent Surgical Patients. (J Pediatr Psychol. 2005)

Opioids in chronic non-cancer pain, indications and controversies. (Eur J Pain. 2005)

[Pain assessment and pain treatment in the geriatric patient Teil II: Schmerztherapie.] (Schmerz. 2005)

Pain in acute and chronic wounds: a descriptive study. (Ostomy Wound Manage. 2005)

Pain management in children: developmental considerations and mind-body therapies. (South Med J. 2005)

Partner-Guided Cancer Pain Management at the End of Life: A Preliminary Study. (J Pain Symptom Manage. 2005)

Physical and emotional functioning of adult patients with chronic abdominal pain: Comparison with patients with chronic back pain. (J Pain. 2005)

Rapid switching between transdermal fentanyl and methadone in cancer patients. (J Clin Oncol. 2005)

Relief From Chronic Pelvic Pain

Sedation for terminally ill patients with cancer with uncontrollable physical distress. (J Palliat Med. 2005)

Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment. (Eur J Pain. 2005)

The Use of Opioids in Palliative Medicine

Widespread pain in fibromyalgia is related to a deficit of endogenous pain inhibition. (Pain. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

Mayo - Cancer pain treatment

Mayo - Pain Management Center

NIH - NCI Pain Management With Drugs

NIH - NCI Pain Overview

NIH - Pain

NIH - Pain

The Oxford Pain Internet Site

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