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- Pain management: problems and progress
- Basic mechanisms underlying the causes and effects of pain
- Assessment: underlying complexities, misconceptions, and practical tools
- Overview of three groups of analgesics
- Nonopioids: acetaminophen and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDS)
- Opioid analgesics
- Adjuvant analgesics
- Procedural pain management
- Practical nondrug approaches to pain
- Substance abuse
- Chronic nonmalignant pain
- Selected pain problems
- Pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and breast feeding: use of analgesics
- Pain in infants
- Pain in the elderly
- Building institutional commitment to improving pain management.