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Several key-word terms characterize the mission of this website: open-access, non-commercial, evidence-based, clinically-focused, pain management, news, information, research, and education. This overview provides a general summary of the many Pain-Topics.org tabbed sections and their contents. To visit a section either click on the icon or the <click here> text.
	Home <click here> This is the gateway to Pain-Topics.org and provides notices of what's new at the site, links to announcements of clinical interest in pain management, and the navigation tabs.
	Pain Topics e-Briefings Newsletter <click here> This quarterly electronic publication – available in PDF format for download and optimized for rapid reading – provides busy healthcare professionals with review articles, interviews, research summaries, and other current information relevant for everyday clinical practice.
	Pain Treatment News/Research Updates <click here> Provides timely synopses of and commentary on clinical news and research reports relating to pain management; gathered by our ongoing reviews of journals, mass media, and other medical information sources. As of July 2009, Updates items are linked to the Pain-Topics Blog for easier access and to allow for reader comments.
	Events Calendar <click here> Continuously updated, this section lists dozens of conferences, meetings, and other events of interest to the pain management community, worldwide. Events are organized by month and year, and Pain-Topics.org has the most comprehensive such listings to be found anywhere on the Internet.
	Supporters/Affiliates <click here> Educational supporters and independent affiliate organizations are described here, with links to their respective websites or other information. Note: Pain Treatment Topics does not accept commercial advertising or promote specific products or services.
	Clinical Concepts in Pain Management <click here> Through interviews, literature review articles, practice pointer summaries, surveys, and other offerings, this section integrates and interprets the various clinical aspects of effective, evidence-based pain management.
	Non-Opioid Therapy for Pain <click here> Clinical evidence favoring diverse pain management modalities – including non-opioid pharmacotherapy and non-pharmacologic therapies – is presented.
	Opioid Rx & Safety <click here> This section focuses on the special role of opioid pharmacotherapy in severe acute and moderate-to-severe chronic pain management. Evidence-based clinical guidance for effective and prudent application of these vital medications is provided. Along with that, the interface of addiction and pain treatment – particularly involving opioid analgesics – is discussed as a common and vexing problem in clinical practice.
	Pain Disorders Spotlight <click here> This section provides access to pain treatment resources addressing common painful disorders or conditions of special clinical interest and importance. The informational and educational needs of all healthcare providers who treat these disorders are addressed.
	FAQs <click here> Pain Treatment Topics addresses common pain management questions that arise in clinical practice; answers are based on evidence from the medical literature and/or expert opinion.
	Pain Treatment Guidelines/Reports <click here> This section includes a carefully selected collection of evidence-based guidelines and reports -- systematic reviews and position/policy/consensus statements -- addressing pain management, and coming from government agencies, medical associations or societies, academic institutions, or similar authorities.
	Pain Treatment Education/CME Locator <click here> This frequently updated section describes continuing medical education (CME) opportunities available via the Internet and recent textbooks or other educational materials that may be of interest to healthcare practitioners in the pain management field.
	Related Websites <click here> More than 150 Internet sites are listed here and have been evaluated as being noncommercial, evidence-based, and serving the informational and educational needs of the pain management community.
	Pain Treatment Patient Resources <click here> Carefully evaluated booklets, fact sheets, articles, and other materials are included or recommended here for the benefit of healthcare providers to make available to their patients with acute or chronic pain conditions..
	Site Policies <click here> This section provides full disclosure of liability limitations, protections afforded site visitors, and how editorial, quality oversight, and sponsor/affiliate-selection practices are implemented at Pain-Topics.org.
	Contacts/About Us <click here> A fundamental policy of Pain Treatment Topics is to be openly accessible and responsive to site visitors; therefore, this section provides information on our staff and medical advisors, and how to contact us.
	Pain-Art Gallery - Portraying the Personal Side of Pain <click here> Artworks in this special gallery depict a broad pallet of pain conditions, created by patients and expressing emotions, thoughts, and perspectives that they often cannot put into words.
	Search Engine <click here> This specialized Zoom search engine allows custom searches of all Pain-Topics.org contents and quickly provides relevant results, without the intrusion of any commercial advertising.
	Search Tips <click here> Finding just what you need at a website can be unnecessarily time consuming. Several helpful search features can help you locate information of interest more efficiently and quickly.
	Register for e-Notifications of Site Updates <click here> We will alert you via e-mail of when this site is updated, a new e-Briefing is posted, or there are important announcements of interest.
	Pain-Topics.org Newsroom <click here> This page hosts an archive of news releases announcing special website offerings, as well as announcements of Affiliate organization activities or events and Sponsor updates.
	Tell a Friend <click here> Share this website with a friend or colleague. Simply fill in the e-mail address of your friend/colleague, and any added comments if you wish, and he/she will be sent an e-mail inviting them to visit Pain-Topics.org.
	Glossary <click here> For quick reference, brief definitions are provided for the most commonly used, and sometimes misunderstood, terms in the pain management field.

This page was last updated 11/21/09