Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management
Cathy Stannard (Editor), Eija Kalso (Editor), Jane Ballantyne (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5291-4
Hardcover
464 pages
April 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
A genuine evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in various chronic conditions
Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering
Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used
Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent
Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain
About the Contributors.
Preface.
Section I: Understanding chronic pain and evidence.
1. Why evidence matters.
2. Clinical trial design for chronic pain treatments.
3. Introduction to evaluation of evidence.
4. Neurobiology of pain.
5. Intractable pain and the perception of time: every patient is an anecdote.