Pain
Use this guide to find information resources about pain including books, journal articles and reports.
Last updated:
17/09/2024
Key Resources
Royal College of Nursing (2023) UK career framework for pain nurses. London: RCN.
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 (2020) 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
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Information aimed at the public.
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NHS England: Opioid prescribing for chronic pain.
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SIGN (2019) Guidelines: Management of chronic pain.
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Versus Arthritis (2021) Chronic pain in England: Unseen unequal unfair.
We would like to thank the RCN Pain and Palliative Care member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.
Books
Ambron R (2022) The brain and pain: breakthroughs in neuroscience. New York: Columbia University Press.
Attal N and Bouhassira D (eds.) (2023) Neuropathic pain. New York: Oxford University Press.
Breivik H, Campbell, W I and Nicholas M (2019) Clinical pain management: practice and procedures. 2nd edn. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Cole F (2020) Overcoming chronic pain: a self-help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques. London: Robinson.
Collantes Celador E, Rudiger J and Tameem A (eds.) (2022) Essential notes in pain medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DaĆczak A and Lazenby N (2020) Pain: management, expression, interpretation. Freeland: Interdisciplinary Press.
D'Arcy Y and Kiley D (2020) Pain management in primary care: essential knowledge for APRNs and PAs. New York:Springer.
Erdine S and Staats P S (eds.) (2022) Complications of pain-relieving procedures: an illustrated guide. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
Hogans B (2022) Pain medicine at a glance. Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell.
Hossain A (2021) The pain gap: How sexism and racism in healthcare kill women. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Jackson G (2019) Pain and prejudice: a call to arms for women and their bodies. London: Piatkus.
Lalkhen A (2022) Pain: what it is, why it happens and how to cope. London: Atlantic Books.
Macintyre P E and Schug S A (2020) Acute pain management: a practical guide. 5th edn. Milton: Taylor & Francis Group.
Sharma M, Simpson K H, Bennett M I and Gupta S (2022) Practical management of complex cancer pain. 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Journal articles
Journals
Journals of interest for pain. Use these links to see details of availability.
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