Topic · Pain Management and Opioid Use
Most cited papers in Pain Management and Opioid Use
What are the most cited papers in Pain Management and Opioid Use?
The most cited paper in Pain Management and Opioid Use is "Improvements in survival and clinical benefit with gemcitabine as first-line therapy for patients with advanced pancreas cancer: a randomized trial." (Howard A. Burris, Malcolm J. Moore, John Sahl Andersen et al., 1997), with 5,935 citations. Next come "Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale" (5,825) and "Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment" (5,568).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 1,062 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Improvements in survival and clinical benefit with gemcitabine as first-line therapy for patients with advanced pancreas cancer: a randomized trial. Howard A. Burris, Malcolm J. Moore, John Sahl Andersen et al. · Journal of Clinical Oncology | Jun 1997 | 5,935 |
| 2 | Clinical importance of changes in chronic pain intensity measured on an 11-point numerical pain rating scale John T. Farrar, James P. Young, Linda LaMoreaux et al. · Pain | Nov 2001 | 5,825 |
| 3 | Survey of chronic pain in Europe: Prevalence, impact on daily life, and treatment Harald Breivik, Beverly Collett, Vittorio Ventafridda et al. · European Journal of Pain | 11 Aug 2005 | 5,568 |
| 4 | Pain assessment: global use of the Brief Pain Inventory. Cleeland Cs, Ryan Km · PubMed | Mar 1994 | 5,290 |
| 5 | CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain—United States, 2016 Deborah Dowell, Tamara M. Haegerich, Roger Chou · JAMA | 15 Mar 2016 | 5,206 |
| 6 | The revised International Association for the Study of Pain definition of pain: concepts, challenges, and compromises Srinivasa Naga Raja, Daniel B. Carr, Milton L Cohen et al. · Pain | 16 Jul 2020 | 5,173 |
| 7 | MEASUREMENT OF PAIN E.C. HUSKISSON · The Lancet | Nov 1974 | 4,523 |
| 8 | The short-form McGill pain questionnaire Ronald Melzack · Pain | Aug 1987 | 4,418 |
| 9 | Persistent postsurgical pain: risk factors and prevention Henrik Kehlet, Troels Staehelin Jensen, Clifford J. Woolf · The Lancet | May 2006 | 4,102 |
| 10 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU John W. Devlin et al. · Critical Care Medicine | 16 Aug 2018 | 4,050 |
| 11 | Pharmacotherapy for neuropathic pain in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis Nanna Brix Finnerup, Nadine Attal, Simon Haroutounian et al. · The Lancet Neurology | 6 Jan 2015 | 3,995 |
| 12 | Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Pain, Agitation, and Delirium in Adult Patients in the Intensive Care Unit Juliana Barr et al. · Critical Care Medicine | 24 Dec 2012 | 3,834 |
| 13 | Interpreting the Clinical Importance of Treatment Outcomes in Chronic Pain Clinical Trials: IMMPACT Recommendations Robert H. Dworkin et al. · Journal of Pain | 13 Dec 2007 | 3,496 |
| 14 | The measurement of clinical pain intensity: a comparison of six methods Mark P. Jensen, Paul Karoly, Sanford Braver · Pain | Oct 1986 | 3,316 |
| 15 | Management of Postoperative Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Regional Anesthesia, Executive Committee, and Administrative Council Roger Chou et al. · Journal of Pain | 28 Jan 2016 | 3,202 |
| 16 | Pain: a review of three commonly used pain rating scales Amelia Williamson, Barbara Hoggart · Journal of Clinical Nursing | 30 Jun 2005 | 3,122 |
| 17 | Grading the severity of chronic pain Michael Von Korff, Johan Ormel, Francis J. Keefe et al. · Pain | Aug 1992 | 3,069 |
| 18 | A classification of chronic pain for ICD-11 Rolf‐Detlef Treede et al. · Pain | 6 Apr 2015 | 2,856 |
| 19 | Sex, Gender, and Pain: A Review of Recent Clinical and Experimental Findings Roger Benton Fillingim, Christopher D. King, Margarete Ribeiro-Dasilva et al. · Journal of Pain | May 2009 | 2,781 |
| 20 | Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain: A Joint Clinical Practice Guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society Roger Chou, Amir Qaseem, Vincenza T. Snow et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 2 Oct 2007 | 2,756 |
| 21 | Studies Comparing Numerical Rating Scales, Verbal Rating Scales, and Visual Analogue Scales for Assessment of Pain Intensity in Adults: A Systematic Literature Review Marianne Jensen Hjermstad, Peter M. Fayers, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen et al. · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | Jun 2011 | 2,731 |
| 22 | Endogenous Pain Control Systems: Brainstem Spinal Pathways and Endorphin Circuitry Allan I. Basbaum, Howard L. Fields · Annual Review of Neuroscience | Mar 1984 | 2,644 |
| 23 | The Economic Costs of Pain in the United States Darrell J. Gaskin, Patrick J. Richard · Journal of Pain | 16 May 2012 | 2,396 |
| 24 | The use of coping strategies in chronic low back pain patients: Relationship to patient characteristics and current adjustment Anne K. Rosenstiel, Francis J. Keefe · Pain | Sep 1983 | 2,330 |
| 25 | Buprenorphine maintenance versus placebo or methadone maintenance for opioid dependence Richard Phillip Mattick, Courtney L. Breen, Jo Kimber et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews | 6 Feb 2014 | 2,304 |
| 26 | Advances in Pain Research and Therapy Josef K. Wang · Anesthesia & Analgesia | Feb 1980 | 2,260 |
| 27 | Chronic catheterization of the spinal subarachnoid space Tony L. Yaksh, Thomas A. Rudy · Physiology & Behavior | Dec 1976 | 2,241 |
| 28 | Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015 Rose Anne Rudd, Puja Seth, Felicita David et al. · MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | 16 Dec 2016 | 2,233 |
| 29 | Postoperative Pain Experience: Results from a National Survey Suggest Postoperative Pain Continues to Be Undermanaged Jeffrey L. Apfelbaum, Connie Chen, Shilpa S. Mehta et al. · Anesthesia & Analgesia | Aug 2003 | 2,223 |
| 30 | Clinical Guidelines for the Use of Chronic Opioid Therapy in Chronic Noncancer Pain Roger Chou et al. · Journal of Pain | Feb 2009 | 2,216 |
| 31 | The Erector Spinae Plane Block Mauricio Forero, Sanjib Das Adhikary, Hector Lopez et al. · Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine | 2016 | 2,185 |
| 32 | Cannabinoids for Medical Use Penny F. Whiting, Robert F. Wolff, Sohan Deshpande et al. · JAMA | 23 Jun 2015 | 2,179 |
| 33 | Pharmacologic management of neuropathic pain: Evidence-based recommendations Robert H. Dworkin, Alec O'connor, Miroslav Bačkonja et al. · Pain | 10 Nov 2007 | 2,136 |
| 34 | Reliability of the Visual Analog Scale for Measurement of Acute Pain Polly E. Bijur, Wendy G. Silver, E.John Gallagher · Academic Emergency Medicine | Dec 2001 | 2,072 |
| 35 | New Persistent Opioid Use After Minor and Major Surgical Procedures in US Adults Chad M. Brummett, Jennifer F. Waljee, Jenna Goesling et al. · JAMA Surgery | 12 Apr 2017 | 2,031 |
| 36 | Assessment of pain Harald Breivik, Petter Christian Borchgrevink, Sara Maria Allen et al. · British Journal of Anaesthesia | 16 May 2008 | 2,031 |
| 37 | Pain and Its Treatment in Outpatients with Metastatic Cancer Charles S. Cleeland, René Gonin, Alan K. Hatfield et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 3 Mar 1994 | 2,026 |
| 38 | Prevalence of pain in patients with cancer: a systematic review of the past 40 years M.H.J. van den Beuken-van Everdingen, Janneke M. de Rijke, A. G. H. Kessels et al. · Annals of Oncology | 13 Mar 2007 | 1,927 |
| 39 | Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2000–2014 Rose Anne Rudd, Noah Aleshire, Jon E. Zibbell et al. · MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | 30 Dec 2015 | 1,894 |
| 40 | EFNS guidelines on the pharmacological treatment of neuropathic pain: 2010 revision Nadine Attal, G. Cruccu, Ralf Baron et al. · European Journal of Neurology | 7 Apr 2010 | 1,881 |
| 41 | CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022 Deborah Dowell, Kathleen R. Ragan, Christopher McCall Jones et al. · MMWR Recommendations and Reports | 3 Nov 2022 | 1,844 |
| 42 | Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2017 Lawrence Scholl, Puja Seth, Mbabazi Kariisa et al. · MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report | 21 Dec 2018 | 1,766 |
| 43 | Chronic pain: a review of its epidemiology and associated factors in population-based studies Sarah E. E. Mills, Karen P. Nicolson, Blair Hamilton Smith · British Journal of Anaesthesia | 9 May 2019 | 1,759 |
| 44 | Effects of a Palliative Care Intervention on Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Advanced Cancer Marie Anne Bakitas, Kathleen Doyle Lyons, Mark T. Hegel et al. · JAMA | 18 Aug 2009 | 1,742 |
| 45 | Update on Prevalence of Pain in Patients With Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis M.H.J. van den Beuken-van Everdingen, Laura M. J. Hochstenbach, Elbert A.J. Joosten et al. · Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 30 Apr 2016 | 1,710 |
| 46 | The FLACC: a behavioral scale for scoring postoperative pain in young children. Sandra I. Merkel, Terri Voepel‐Lewis, J R Shayevitz et al. · PubMed | Aug 1997 | 1,640 |
| 47 | The Effectiveness and Risks of Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review for a National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Workshop Roger Chou, Judith Axler Turner, Emily Beth Devine et al. · Annals of Internal Medicine | 12 Jan 2015 | 1,629 |
| 48 | Development of the Wisconsin Brief Pain Questionnaire to assess pain in cancer and other diseases Randall L. Daut, Charles S. Cleeland, Randall C. Flanery · Pain | Oct 1983 | 1,592 |
| 49 | Chemotherapy with mitoxantrone plus prednisone or prednisone alone for symptomatic hormone-resistant prostate cancer: a Canadian randomized trial with palliative end points. Ian F. Tannock, David Osoba, Martin R. Stockler et al. · Journal of Clinical Oncology | Jun 1996 | 1,584 |
| 50 | Pain Intensity on the First Day after Surgery H. U. Gerbershagen, Sanjay Aduckathil, Albert J. M. van Wijck et al. · Anesthesiology | 8 Feb 2013 | 1,582 |
Citations are OpenAlex's own counts, from its 2026-09-23 snapshot, so the ranking can differ from Google Scholar or Web of Science. A paper is listed for a field when OpenAlex files it under one of the field's topics; retracted papers and papers whose citation count cannot be traced to citing works are left out, and a preprint and the article it became are shown once. Release dates are OpenAlex's: where a source gave only a month or a year, that is what is shown. How the lists are chosen.