Fast Facts in Pain Management

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Fast Facts #1: Critical Components for Assessment

Fast Facts #2: Types of Pain

Fast Facts #3: World Health Organization Step Ladder

Fast Facts #4: General Guidelines for Analgesic Medication Orders

Fast Facts #5: Neuropathic Pain

Fast Facts #6: Nurse-Physician Communication

Fast Facts #7: Increasing an Opioid Dose

For more information contact Debra DeSilva, Project Coordinator, at Debra_DeSilva@brown.edu, or Joan Teno, M.D., M.S., Principal Investigator, at Joan_Teno@brown.edu or at Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Box G-H, Providence, RI 02912.