TREATMENT FOR PERSISTENT PAIN
MEDICATIONS
The Fremantle Hospital Pain Medicine Unit booklet has an informative section on medications for pain. It explains Number of patients Needed to Treat (NNT) and Number Needed to Harm (NNH) for each medication which is useful information to know the likely benefits or harm for medication. It also describes common pain medications. The section on Medications can be accessed here.
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""It's one of the biggest health issues in Australia today: every bit as big as cancer, AIDS and coronary heart disease. Pain.""
– Professor Michael Cousins, AM, a world authority on pain and its management.
http://www.painaustralia.org.au/