Pain Topics

A "Pain Topic" is a short, focused monograph. Some of these have appeared in the monthly newsletter, Pain Relief Connection. Suggestions for new Pain Topics and feedback on published Pain Topics are welcome at PainRelief@Partners.org.

Click on a link, below, to reach the pain topic of that title.

Review of Opioid Conversion Calculators (3rd revised ed, 2/07) (PDF)

Pain Assessment in the Non-Verbal Patient (PDF)

Pain Assessment in the Difficult-to-Assess Patient (PDF)

Information for Your Patients (PDF)

Patient Resources (PDF)

A Case of Finding the Opioid Right Dose (PDF)

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (PDF)

Converting Opioid Analgesics, Part I: Use of Equianalgesic Tables (PDF)

Converting Opioid Analgesics, Part II: Review of Equianalgesic Conversion Calculators
(PDF)

Converting Opioid Analgesics: PDA Opioid Conversion Calculators (PDF)

Assessment of Pain in Patients with Dementia (PDF)
Assessment of Pain in Patients with Dementia (HTML)

Shingles and Post Herpetic Neuralgia (HTML)
Shingles and Post Herpetic Neuralgia (PDF)

Meperidine--What's All the Fuss? (PDF)
Meperidine--What's All the Fuss? (MS Word Document)

JCAHO Pain Standards (PDF)

Pain Pulse 2003 (PDF)

Pain Can Hurt You ("Did You Know . . ." poster) (PDF)

The Use of Heat and Cold in Pain Modulation (PDF)

What is Pseudoaddiction? (PDF)

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