Journal of pain & palliative care pharmacotherapy
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2008
Access to pain relief: an essential human right. A report for World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2007. Help the hospices for the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance.
In observance of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, October 6, 2007, the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance developed a comprehensive publication advocating access to pain relief as a basic human right. The British Charity help the Hospices distributed this publication, which describes the current state of pain relief in advanced disease throughout the world, availability and lack of access to opioid analgesics, clinical case examples of how pain can be managed, governmental and private initiatives and barriers to pain relief, and statistics to support the position that pain relief is a basic human right.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2008
Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupuncture for Chronic Neck Pain.
Timely and important studies are reviewed and commentaries provided by leading palliative care clinicians. Symptoms, interventions, mechanisms of action, and treatment-related adverse events addressed in this issue are: acupuncture for neck pain, role of IL-10 in neuropathic pain, treatments for diabetic neuropathy, probiotics for antibiotic-related diarrhea, and risk of fatal drug poisoning with opioid analgesics.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2008
Evidence-based pain management and palliative care in issue four for 2007 of The Cochrane Library.
The Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is published quarterly. Issue 4 2007 contains 3298 complete reviews, 1755 protocols for reviews in production and 6761 one-page summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. ⋯ The health technology assessment database contains 6087 citations. This edition of the Library contains 101 new reviews of which 7 have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2008
The case for Pain Insomnia Depression Syndrome (PIDS): a symptom cluster in chronic nonmalignant pain.
This commentary suggests that pain, insomnia, and depression might be considered as a symptom cluster in chronic nonmalignant pain and that it might be called Pain Insomnia Depression Syndrome, or PIDS. Evidence is provided in support of the designation. The author suggests acceptance of PIDS would increase awareness of the pain comorbidities insomnia and depression, and this might lead to improved symptom management and better clinical outcomes.