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Access fact sheets on various topics of pain prevention, management, and treatment from IASP’s previous Global Year initiatives.


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Integrating the Patient Voice in Pain Education and Research

Listening to patient stories can influence the clinical and research decisions involved in their pain care. 

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Global Inequities in Pain Treatment: How Future Research Can Address This Better

Inequities in pain treatment occur globally[6]. Pain Inequities exist between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries, as well as within countries based on factors such as race, sex, gender, […]

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Pain Education Assessment and Evaluation Strategies

Curriculum assessment and evaluation are important steps in instructional design, whether the educational experience is a 30-minute single-topic in-service program or a four-year multifaceted sequence of courses. Assessment (a formative […]

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Sex/Gender Biases in Pain Research and Clinical Practice

What Are Sex/Gender Biases in Pain Research and Clinical Practice? Sex/gender biases describe a tendency to (un)favor a group of individuals over another based on their sex/gender categorization [1]. They […]

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Pain in Cognitive Impairment, not Dementia-Related: Management

Depending on the cause of intellectual disability and various areas of the brain involved, the motivational-affective, cognitive-evaluative, and autonomic responses to pain can be affected.

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