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This peer-reviewed journal offers a unique focus on the realm of pain management as it applies to nursing. Original and review articles from experts in the field offer key insights in the areas of clinical practice, advocacy, education, administration, and research. Additional features include practice guidelines and pharmacology updates.Benefits to authorsWe also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services.Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our support pages: http://support.elsevier.com

Pain Medicine is a multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to pain clinicians, educators and researchers with an interest in pain from various medical specialties such as pain medicine, anesthesiology, family practice, internal medicine, neurology, neurological surgery, orthopedic spine surgery, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine as well as related health disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, nursing, nurse practitioner, and physical therapy. This scholarly, indexed publication reflects the rapid growth in pain science and practice as well as the field's need for policy, ethical, and forensic commentary on pain and its management. Readers benefit from both cutting-edge original clinical and translational research and scientific reviews.This is the respected pain journal that gives you special sections on spine pain, pain & aging, primary care & health services, neuropathic pain, palliative care, opioids, substance abuse & addiction, psychology, psychiatry and brain neuroscience, translational research, acute & perioperative pain, rehabilitation, musculoskeletal pain, ethics and forensic pain medicine, as well as case reports, reviews, clinical investigations , special articles on thematic topics,editorials, guest commentary and letters to the editor. Thematic supplements are published yearly.The journal accepts international research papers on all pain topics, including submissions from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Poland, Spain and Turkey among other countries. Pain Medicine promotes both the visibility and development of pain medicine as a worldwide interdisciplinary medical specialty within a multidisciplinary pain field and also promotes the specialty’s collaboration with primary care and other health services towards a population-based approach to pain management for the public health.

Pain Research & Management will consider for publication original papers on any scientific aspect of pain, namely basic science and animal studies, and clinical topics, including epidemiological, social, psychological and psychiatric aspects, as well as reviews and case reports. Management topics, the economic aspects of pain and historical studies are also welcome. Papers may deal with specific Canadian aspects of pain, but there is no restriction in this respect and international submissions will be readily received. The Journal is pleased to accept articles in either English or French. Manuscripts are received with the understanding that they are submitted solely to Pain Research & Management and that, apart from abstracts, none of the material contained in the manuscript has been published previously or is under consideration for publication elsewhere. The publisher reserves copyright on all published material and material may not be reproduced without the written permission of the publisher. Statements and opinions are the responsibility of the authors. Written approval by the local animal or human institutional review committee must be stated in the manuscript except for work that is noninvasive and minimally intrusive, or that is based upon routine clinical statistics already existing for the purposes of clinical care or follow-up and is part of the ordinary treatment of patients or human subjects.

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