title: Procedure-specific postoperative pain management.
abstract: Procedure-specific postoperative pain management guidelines arguably are more helpful to the clinician than general pain guidelines or guidelines based on the use of the Oxford League Tables. Two sources, the United States Veteran's Health Administration and the European Prospect Working Group, offer websites that include surgical procedure-specific postoperative pain management guidelines, which are available and currently updated.
authors.affiliation: Section for Surgical Pathophysiology 4074, The Juliane Marie Centre Rigshospitalet, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. henrik.kehlet@rh.dk
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kehlet
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D010149:Postoperative Pain / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000009:adverse effects*