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Resources for education on pain and its management: A practitioner’s compendium

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Knowing enough information about pain and its management to adequately care for people in pain may seem challenging, especially for primary care providers who provide the bulk of pain management services in the United States. Few, if any, primary care providers received training beyond the names of a few analgesics and the rudiments of pain assessments. Fortunately, many national and international societies provide health care practitioners with pain-related education, resources, and tools. Education may be tied to pain certification or specialization, or provided solely for the benefit of practitioners. Due in large part to the World Wide Web, much information about pain is readily available online.

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    B. Eliot Cole

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Eliot Cole, B. Resources for education on pain and its management: A practitioner’s compendium. Current Science Inc 13, 110–119 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-009-0020-2

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