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Pain

Use this guide to find information resources about pain including books, journal articles and reports.

Last updated: 13/02/2024

Key Resources

British Pain Society (2019) Outcome measures. London: BPS.
Faculty of Pain Medicine (2021) Core standards for pain management services in the UK. 2nd edn. London: Royal College of Anaesthetists.
Faculty of Pain Medicine (2016) Opioids aware: a resource for patients and healthcare professionals to support prescribing of opioid medicines for pain. London: Royal College of Anaesthetists.

NHS Choices: 10 ways to reduce pain

NHS England: Opioid prescribing for chronic pain.
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Royal College of Nursing (2023) UK career framework for pain nurses. London: RCN.
SIGN (2019) Guidelines: Management of chronic pain.
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We would like to thank the RCN Pain and Palliative Care member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

Books

Book Cover Ambron R (2022) The brain and pain: breakthroughs in neuroscience. New York: Columbia University Press.
Book cover Benzon H T et al (2018) Essentials of pain medicine. 4th edn. Philadelphia: Elseiver.
Book cover Breivik H, Campbell, W I and Nicholas M (2019) Clinical pain management: practice and procedures. 2nd edn. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Book cover Carayannopoulos A (2017) Comprehensive pain management in the rehabilitation patient. Berlin: Springer.
Book Cover Cole F (2020) Overcoming chronic pain: a self-help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques. London: Robinson.
Book cover Dańczak A and Lazenby N (2020) Pain: management, expression, interpretation. Freeland: Interdisciplinary Press.
Book cover D'Arcy Y and Kiley D (2020) Pain management in primary care: essential knowledge for APRNs and PAs. New York:Springer.
Book cover Denny E (2018) Pain: key themes in health and social care. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Book cover Dragojlovic A and Broom A (2018) Bodies and suffering: emotions and relations of care. Routledge: London. 
Book Cover Hogans B (2022) Pain medicine at a glance. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell.
Book Cover Hossain A (2021) The pain gap: How sexism and racism in healthcare kill women. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Book cover Jackson G (2019) Pain and prejudice: a call to arms for women and their bodies. London: Piatkus.
Book Cover Lalkhen A (2022) Pain: what it is, why it happens and how to cope. London: Atlantic Books. 
Book cover Norman A (2018) Ask me about my uterus: a quest to make doctors believe in women's pain. New York: Nation Books.
Book cover Pickering G, Zwakhalen S and Kaasalainen S (2018) Pain management in older adults: a nursing perspective. Cham: Springer.
Book cover Rosenquist R W and Cheng J (2018) Fundamentals of pain medicine. Cham: Springer.
Book cover Turk D (2018) Psychological approaches to pain management : a practitioner's handbook. 3rd edn. New York: The Guilford Press.
Book cover Yong R J, Nguyen M, Nelson E and Urman R D (2017) Pain medicine: an essential review. Cham: Springer.

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