Pain Management Yearbook 2010

Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc, (Medical Director, Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Adolescent Medicine, KY Childrens Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Lexington, Kentucky, US; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel; Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Centers, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel; School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, US)

Introduction; Psychodynamic pain management for cancer patients; The relationship factors between radiation oncologists & hospice professionals that influence cancer pain palliation; Symptom clusters in metastatic cancer: A critical appraisal; Quality of life measures used in radiation therapy trials for patients with metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC): A literature review; Improving cancer pain management in the home; An investigation into registered nurse awareness of & practice related to cancer pain; Gender difference in the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) scores in patients with advanced cancer; Determining the accuracy of health care professionals in predicting the survival of patients with advanced metastatic cancer; Projected referral for health care services in an out-patient palliative radiotherapy clinic; The palliative performance scale: Examining its correlation to Karnofsky performance scale in an outpatient palliative radiation oncology clinic; Painful diabetic neuropathy; The body posture pain scale: Assessment of pediatric sickle cell pain intensity; Impact of a new care pathway on attendance on a residential chronic pain management programme (PMP); Labour epidural analgesia: Do we monitor their efficacy?; Prevalence of pain in family practice. Gender issues; Patient & clinician global ratings of change following interdisciplinary treatment for chronic pain; Assessment of different anesthetic techniques in mandibular molars with irreversible pulpitis; Antecedents of chronic pain: Patient view on cause; A network of psychologists specialized in treating pain patients in the North of the Netherlands; The impact of opioid use on treatment completion & outcomes in patients undergoing a multidisciplinary rehabilitation program for chronic pain; Effect of the combined intra-articular administration of morphine & methylprednisolone in patients with knee osteoarthritis; Comparison of the analgesic effect of systemic & regional clonidine for upper limb surgery; The holistic vulva clinic. An integrative approach to the treatment of the genital, sexual & non-sexual pain & the other health problems related to the female gender; Depression in cancer pain patients; Prescription patterns of analgesics & pain relief for hospitalized trauma patients in a tertiary care teaching hospital of a Caribbean developing country; Confirmatory factor analysis of brief pain inventory (BPI) functional interference clusters in patients with bone metastases; Suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis after epidural glucocorticoid injection. Identification of inherent at-risk patients; Specialised pain therapy from the general practitioners' perspective: A qualitative assessment; Sociodemographic factors in a pediatric chronic pain clinic: The roles of age, sex & minority status in pain & health characteristics; Development & initial validation of the Batten's Observational Pain Scale: A preliminary study; The pain behaviour of children with neuronal ceroid lupofiscinosis: Variation due to child factors & pain history; Radiation-induced nausea & vomiting in a palliative radiotherapy clinic: A preliminary analysis; Profile of pain & use of pharmacological & non-pharmacological methods for relieving pain in older persons in nursing homes; Effect of fentanyl addition to bupivacaine on cervical plexus block for carotid endarterectomy; Systematic review on the literature on culture & pain; Pain management: Is it a human right?; Understanding pain from torture: Cultural considerations; Fibromyalgia syndrome & cognitivo-affective disorders; Physical activity for agitation & pain in dementia; The show must go on: Psychological perspectives on dancing with pain; Music therapy & pain; Correlation of depression, quality of life & pain in cancer patients; The effects of acupressure in older adults with chronic knee pain: depression, pain, activities of daily living & mobility; The "anaesthetic properties" of the images in regard to their affective & aesthetic content: Preliminary results; Art therapy: In the heart of pain, acceptance via creativity; About the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development; Index.