Stannard, Kalso, Ballantyne Evidence-based Chronic Pain Management

• 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
• Seeks to answer the 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 worlds leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain

Pain management is a critical element of patient care, particularly in chronic disease. This genuinely evidence-based text for optimum pain relief in chronic illness provides the information on which to build more coherent and standardized strategies for pain relief. Evidence-Based Chronic Pain Management seeks to answer the questions both about which are the most effective methods, and those which are not effective yet continue to be used. In taking this thorough approach, the book provides all clinicians managing patients with chronic pain with complementary focuses: a critically appraised review of the evidence, and a guide to using the evidence for optimum management of the individual patient.