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Innovations in End-of-Life Care
This journal's links are extensive.

International Association for the Study of Pain
Under Unofficial Resources find links to pain journals, sites dealing with clinical issues, and scientific topics.

Pain & the Law
Developed by St. Louis University and the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, this site lists agencies, organizations, statutes and laws and discusses malpractice and legal actions.

PainLink Resources
This archived site of the Mayday Fund's highly regarded project, which ended in 2001, has active links to many organizations.

Organizations

American Pain Foundation
Devoted to patient information and advocacy, there are links to additional resources.

American Pain Society
Lists international and regional societies and their events and abstracts.

City of Hope
End-of-life and nursing research.

International Association for the Study of Pain
This site has an excellent list of titles which open into short, clearly written, clinical newsletters that overview issues in the pain world. Tufts Professor Daniel Carr edits Pain: Clinical Updates.

Alliance of State Pain Initiatives
This grass-roots organization is devoted to making pain management a priority in all health care settings.

Tufts Resources

Tufts Program in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine [TUSK account required]
For acupuncture, click CAM Modalities/ East Asian Medicine/ Interventions and Conditions.

Masters of Science in Pain Research, Education & Policy
This program website covers curricula, faculty, events and requirements.

Certificate of Advanced Study in Pain Topics

 

Databases

  • CINAHL
    Covers the nursing and allied-health literature from 1982 to the present.
  • Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
    From Ovid's list of databases, click EBM Reviews: CDSR. Protocols and systematic reviews by the Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Group can be selected by clicking Browse Topics on the Main Search Page for the CDSR.
  • LexisNexis Academic
    This full-text resource includes articles from major American newspapers, regional papers, newsletters, and journals. Its Congressional section covers bills before Congress, laws and regulations. On its Guided News Search form, select General News then Major Papers to search the Boston Globe, NY Times, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal et al.
  • MEDLINE
    Ovid links to its evidence-based files at the article level. Limit to EBM Reviews, then click Article Review to see the full-text of reviews in ACP Journal Club and DARE, or click Ovid Full Text examine a Cochrane review that covers the article.
  • Ovid HealthStar
    This file covers the literature on health administration and policy from 1966. Although it uses MeSH, the MEDLINE retrieval can be eliminated using its limits.
  • Tufts Database Finder: Anesthesiology | Neurology

Electronic Journals

Books & Audio-Visuals

HHSL Call Numbers
Acupuncture WB 369
Analgesics QV 95
Anesthesia WO 450
Neurological nursing WY 162.5
Pain WL 704
Palliative Care WB 310
Postoperative Pain WO 184

 

Audio-Visuals
  • Patient-controlled analgesia for better postoperative pain control.
    HHSL Book Stacks WB 100 N337 NO.605 1991
  • Guidelines for office sedation and analgesia
    HHSL Book Stacks WB 100 N337 no.736 1998
Electronic Books