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9780444514141

Pain Management: Evidence, Outcomes and Quality of Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780444514141

  • ISBN10:

    0444514147

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-02-07
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science
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Summary

This collection of invited chapters focuses on topics relating to effective pain management. The emphasis now is on demonstrating the effectiveness of treatment and patient management through the measurement of treatment outcomes. This book aims to provide both researchers and clinicians with the tools to make the most appropriate treatment choice for each patient and to assess the cost-effectiveness of its implementation in relation to pain management. Further volume in an established series conceived and commissioned by Sir Patrick Wall. Compiled and edited by two well known names in the field of the measuring the outcomes of pain management. Clinically relevant and research based. Of multiprofessional interest and relevance. Written by a team of international contributors, selected and invited to write because of their expertise and standing in the field. Fully up to the minute - based on the very latest research.

Table of Contents

List of contributorsp. xi
Disclaimersp. xv
Health outcomes and treatment effectiveness in pain medicinep. 1
Choice of pain outcome measures from a clinimetric point of viewp. 21
Qualitative research with people who live with chronic illness and painp. 27
Measuring patient treatment preferencesp. 47
Pain assessment in clinical trialsp. 57
Placebo effects in clinical pain trialsp. 89
Side effects and numbers-needed-to-harmp. 115
Pharmacoeconomics in pain researchp. 123
Clinical analgesic drug trials: targets, research strategies, and individualizing outcome measuresp. 137
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of intervention studiesp. 149
Applying the ICF and ICF Core Sets for chronic widespread painp. 161
Assessment of acute pain and condition-specific health-related quality of lifep. 171
Pediatrics and pain outcomesp. 177
Headachep. 203
Measurement instruments for CRPSp. 215
Arthritis pain, outcomes, and evidencep. 239
Measuring functional status in patients with chronic musculoskeletal painp. 253
The initiative on methods, measurement, and pain assessment in clinical trials (IMMPACT)p. 287
Mental health outcomes of chronic painp. 305
Measuring work outcomes with a focus on health-related work productivity lossp. 329
Outcomes research in older adults with pain: status and futurep. 345
Outcomes measurement in cancer painp. 361
Palliative care outcome measures: translating research into practicep. 377
Why pain control matters in a world full of killer diseasesp. 407
Glossaryp. 413
List of questionnaries on CD-Romp. 419
Indexp. 421
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