Pain Management Yearbook 2012

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; Improve Cancer Pain Control by Continuous Subcutaneous Ketamine Infusion: A Retrospective Case Review of Ketamine Treatment Protocol in an Oncology Center; Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression: Radiotherapy Outcome; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Highly Stressed Breast Cancer Survivors; Palliative Haemostatic Radiotherapy for Advanced Cancer of the Stomach; Do Not Resuscitate How is it Perceived ?; Aggressiveness of Cancer-Care in Lung Cancer Patients Near the End-of-Life in an Oncology Center in Hong Kong; A Cross Sectional Study of Use of Different Pain Assessment Tools in Chinese Cancer Patients; The Information Needs, Perceptions of Communication & Decision-Making Process of Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Chemotherapy; Pain, Psychological Symptoms & Prescription Drug Misuse in HIV: A Literature Review; A Review of the Impact of Oxygen Therapy in Patients with Advanced Lung Disease; Assessing the Quantity & Quality of Experienced & Imagined Pain in Relation to Health Professional Status; Pain Beliefs & Pain-Related Profiles of Older Persons Living in Nursing Homes; Needs Assessment of Patients & their Caregivers at the Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program; Happiness among Community-Dwelling Older Persons: Is it Related to Pain & Loneliness?; On Parole: The Natural History of Recovery from Fibromyalgia in Women - A Grounded Theory Study; Autogenic Training in Patients Treated for Chronic Headache: A Randomised Clinical Trial; The Long-Term Effectiveness of Pain Management Programs: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis; The Need to Define Chronic Pain Self-Management; Evaluation of a Daily Diary for Assessing the Prevalence of Radiation Induced Emesis (RIE); Women with Fibromyalgia: Distress Avoidance Interferes with Gaps in Pain; The Role of Psychological Flexibility in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Preliminary Cross-Sectional Analysis of Processes & Treatment Feasibility; Pain: The Continuing Epidemic; Effect of Local Anesthesia & COX-2 Inhibitors after Thyroid Resection on Postoperative Pain. Results of Two Consecutive Randomized Controlled Monocenter Studies; The Role of Radiotherapy (RT) for the Management of Painful Bone Metastases; Symptom Clusters in Patients with Prostate Cancer: A Literature Review; Pharmacologic Management of Uncomplicated Painful Bone Metastases; Physical Therapy Management of Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review; Positron Emission Tomography & Bone Metastases. A Review of the Literature; Long-Term Survival in Patients with Brain Metastases from Non Small Cell Lung Carcinoma: A Case Series; Heterotopic Ossification: Mimics of Other Benign & Malignant Etiologies; Osteonecrosis of the Jaw Appearing as Bone Metastases in Bone Scan in a Patient with Breast Cancer; Unusual Presentation of Osteolytic Bone Metastases in Prostate Adenocarcinoma; Index.