Change Pain: Ever Evolving—An Update for 2016

Since 1986, the pharmacological management of pain was mainly based on the WHO “analgesic ladder”, with very few drugs available. The huge development of the basic knowledge on pain and its therapy, especially in the past 15 years, has made the “guidelines” of WHO obsolete. That’s why, during the pr...

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Autores principales: Pergolizzi, Joseph V., Paladini, Antonella, Varrassi, Giustino, Raffa, Robert B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5130908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27743137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40122-016-0058-x
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spelling pubmed-51309082016-12-19 Change Pain: Ever Evolving—An Update for 2016 Pergolizzi, Joseph V. Paladini, Antonella Varrassi, Giustino Raffa, Robert B. Pain Ther Editorial Since 1986, the pharmacological management of pain was mainly based on the WHO “analgesic ladder”, with very few drugs available. The huge development of the basic knowledge on pain and its therapy, especially in the past 15 years, has made the “guidelines” of WHO obsolete. That’s why, during the presidency of EFIC of one of the authors (GV), an international advisory board was proposed to review the document, but mainly to ameliorate the approach to the pain patients. Springer Healthcare 2016-10-14 2016-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5130908/ /pubmed/27743137 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40122-016-0058-x Text en © The Author(s) 2016 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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