Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on management of pain in older people

Age and Ageing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 151-153

  Abdulla, Aza ^a   Bone, Margaret ^b   Adams, Nicola ^c   Elliott, Alison M ^d   Jones, Derek ^c   Knaggs, Roger ^e   Martin, Denis ^f   Sampson, Elizabeth L ^g   Schofield, Patricia ^h  

^a South London Healthcare National Health Service Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CAPSAICIN; CORTICOSTEROID; HYALURONIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; STEROID; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADHESIOLYSIS; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA (SENSORY DYSFUNCTION); ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; KINESIOTHERAPY; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MASSAGE; MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEXOLOGY; SPINE FRACTURE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALGESICS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; NERVE BLOCK; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874528511     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs199     Document Type: Editorial

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