World Wide Resources Pain Management

World Wide Web Sites

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Pain Management Web Sites

 

Dannemiller Memorial Educational Foundation - The Worldwide Congress on Pain http://www.pain.com.This is a comprehensive site about pain management with many links to other good web sites.

The American Pain Society Announces New Sickle Cell Pain Guidelines (http://www.ampainsoc.org/) These guidelines are described and available for order at http://www.ampainsoc.org/whatsnew/083099.htm

Partners against Pain at http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/ this site has a wealth of information for patients and Caregivers.

The American Chronic Pain Association ACPA at : http://www.theacpa.org/ offering support and information  for people with chronic pain 

Pediatric Pain Source book at http://www.dal.ca/~painsrc/ An excellent resource for pain assessment tools

American Society of Addiction Medicine (http://www.asam.org)

American Academy of Pain Management's Site  www.aapainmanage.org 

National Pain Foundation at http://www.nationalpainfoundation.org   An on-line education and support community for  persons in pain, their families, and physicians.

Stop Pain at http://www.stoppain.org/ Great slide show on pain pathophysiology, assessment and management at http://www.stoppain.org/for_professionals/compendium/

Medical College of Wisconsin Palliative Medicine Program
(http://www.mcw.edu/pallmed/)

Wisconsin Cancer Pain Initiative (WCPI) http://www.aacpi.wisc.edu/wcpi/

VA Hospital  - Pain as the 5th Vital sign http://www.va.gov/Pain_Management/

American Pain Foundation 201 N. Charles St., Suite 710 Baltimore, MD 21201-4111 ph: 410-783-7292  fax: 410-385-1832 www.painfoundation.org

PainEDU.org at http://www.painedu.org  PainEDU.org is an online resource for clinically relevant information about pain assessment and management. PainEDU.org offers medical professionals the opportunity to stay current with news and literature in the pain management field, to meet some of the leading pain practitioners and to earn continuing education credits by enrolling in our free, accredited course. There is an excellent online pain management book available

Pain Management CME for Health Care providers at http://www.cme-webcredits.org/videoLib/pm/indexPainManagement.html

The American Chronic Pain Association ACPA at : http://www.theacpa.org/ offering support and information  for people with chronic pain 

The Mayday Pain Project at http://www.painandhealth.org/

NATIONAL PAIN EDUCATION COUNCIL EDUCATION RESOURCE http://www.npecweb.org
Investigate the tools, services, and CME/CE programs that the National  Pain Education Council (NPEC) offers via this multi-media website.  Practitioners interested in advancing their knowledge in the management  of pain will find assessment tools they can download and use in their  daily practice, gain free access to recent abstracts from key articles  on pain management from the national library of medicine, and multi-media,  interactive CME/CE programs that include case-based learning systems. - Helping clinicians who treat patients with chronic pain find balance was one of the aims of the National Pain Education Council as it developed a free, online continuing medical education curriculum complete with interactive case studies that simulate real patients whose conditions progress as their pain is treated.  The development of the program was chaired by Richard Payne, MD, chief of pain and palliative care services at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and Russell K. Portenoy, MD, chair of the department of pain medicine and palliative care at Beth Israel Medical Center, also in New York City. 

New Online AMA CME Pain Course for health care providers at http://www.ama-cmeonline.com/  This 12 module web course is a comprehensive review for all providers treating patients with pain. This is an excellent for sickle cell providers.

Johns Hopkins Palm and Desktop Opioid Conversion Program http://www.hopkinsopioidprogram.org

Pain & Policy Studies Group University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/painpolicy/

Endo - Pain management tools at http://www.endo.com/patients/painmanage.html

Country Pain Profile - Purpose: Those who want to understand and improve access to essential opioid pain relief medications in their countries should know basic information about drug control policy, administration and availability. PPSG has assembled key information from several sources and has developed a Country Profile for each country in the world. http://www.painpolicy.wisc.edu/internat/countryprofiles.htm

New Report Finds Pain Affects Millions of Americans -  Health, United States, 2006 With Chartbook on
Trends in the Health of Americans With Special Feature on Pain  http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm

 

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