• Contributes an important advance in the practice of pain management providing the information on which to build more coherent and standardised strategies for relief of patient suffering
  
• Answers questions about which are the most effective methods, AND those which are not effective yet continue to be used
  
• Includes discussion of the positive and the negative evidence, and addresses the grey areas where evidence is ambivalent
  
• Written by the world's leading experts in evidence-based pain management this is a seminal text in the field of pain

Eija Kalso, Professor of pain research and management Pain Clinic, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland

Jane Ballantyne, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, USA