| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Unequal Burden of Pain: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pain | Pain Medicine | 2003 | 983 |
| 2 | Predicting Aberrant Behaviors in Opioid-Treated Patients: Preliminary Validation of the Opioid Risk Tool | Pain Medicine | 2005 | 918 |
| 3 | Proposed New Diagnostic Criteria for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome | Pain Medicine | 2007 | 797 |
| 4 | Pharmacological Management of Persistent Pain in Older Persons | Pain Medicine | 2009 | 650 |
| 5 | Societal Costs of Prescription Opioid Abuse, Dependence, and Misuse in the United States | Pain Medicine | 2011 | 541 |
| 6 | A Double-Blind, Randomized Multicenter Trial Comparing Duloxetine with Placebo in the Management of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain | Pain Medicine | 2005 | 503 |
| 7 | What Percentage of Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Patients Exposed to Chronic Opioid Analgesic Therapy Develop Abuse/Addiction and/or Aberrant Drug-Related Behaviors? A Structured Evidence-Based Review | Pain Medicine | 2008 | 499 |
| 8 | Universal Precautions in Pain Medicine: A Rational Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Pain | Pain Medicine | 2005 | 494 |
| 9 | Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: Practical Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines, 4th Edition | Pain Medicine | 2013 | 440 |
| 10 | The Prevalence, Severity, and Impact of Opioid-Induced Bowel Dysfunction: Results of a US and European Patient Survey (PROBE 1) | Pain Medicine | 2009 | 438 |
| 11 | What Is the Source of Chronic Low Back Pain and Does Age Play a Role? | Pain Medicine | 2011 | 411 |
| 12 | Causes and Consequences of Inadequate Management of Acute Pain | Pain Medicine | 2010 | 389 |
| 13 | Time to Take Stock: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Analgesic Treatment Disparities for Pain in the United States | Pain Medicine | 2012 | 362 |
| 14 | Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Death Rates from Drug Overdose | Pain Medicine | 2011 | 329 |
| 15 | Failed Back Surgery Syndrome | Pain Medicine | 2011 | 329 |
| 16 | Sex-Based Differences in Pain Perception and Treatment | Pain Medicine | 2009 | 305 |
| 17 | Painful Diabetic Neuropathy: Epidemiology, Natural History, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment Options | Pain Medicine | 2008 | 304 |
| 18 | Sustained Effectiveness of 10 kHz High-Frequency Spinal Cord Stimulation for Patients with Chronic, Low Back Pain: 24-Month Results of a Prospective Multicenter Study | Pain Medicine | 2014 | 299 |
| 19 | Pretreatment Psychosocial Variables as Predictors of Outcomes Following Lumbar Surgery and Spinal Cord Stimulation: A Systematic Review and Literature Synthesis | Pain Medicine | 2009 | 297 |
| 20 | Mechanisms of Prescription Drug Diversion Among Drug-Involved Club- and Street-Based Populations | Pain Medicine | 2007 | 295 |
| 21 | Electric and Thermal Field Effects in Tissue Around Radiofrequency Electrodes | Pain Medicine | 2005 | 285 |
| 22 | Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Chronic Opioid Therapy | Pain Medicine | 2008 | 283 |
| 23 | Prevalence of Chronic Pain in a Representative Sample in the United States | Pain Medicine | 2008 | 263 |
| 24 | The Relationship Between Pain, Neuropsychological Performance, and Physical Function in Community-Dwelling Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain | Pain Medicine | 2006 | 260 |
| 25 | The Efficacy of Transforaminal Injection of Steroids for the Treatment of Lumbar Radicular Pain | Pain Medicine | 2010 | 259 |
| 26 | An Analysis of the Root Causes for Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in the United States | Pain Medicine | 2011 | 249 |
| 27 | A Quantitative Review of Ethnic Group Differences in Experimental Pain Response: Do Biology, Psychology, and Culture Matter? | Pain Medicine | 2012 | 247 |
| 28 | Subanesthetic Ketamine Infusion Therapy: A Retrospective Analysis of a Novel Therapeutic Approach to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome | Pain Medicine | 2004 | 244 |
| 29 | Core Competencies for Pain Management: Results of an Interprofessional Consensus Summit | Pain Medicine | 2013 | 240 |
| 30 | The Patient–Provider Relationship in Chronic Pain Care: Providers' Perspectives | Pain Medicine | 2010 | 229 |
| 31 | Mind–Body Interventions for Chronic Pain in Older Adults: A Structured Review: Table 1 | Pain Medicine | 2007 | 224 |
| 32 | Assessing the Quality and Usability of Smartphone Apps for Pain Self-Management | Pain Medicine | 2014 | 222 |
| 33 | Innovative Technology Using Virtual Reality in the Treatment of Pain: Does It Reduce Pain via Distraction, or Is There More to It? | Pain Medicine | 2018 | 222 |
| 34 | Ethnic Similarities and Differences in the Chronic Pain Experience: A Comparison of African American, Hispanic, and White Patients | Pain Medicine | 2005 | 220 |
| 35 | Long-Term Consequences of Chronic Pain: Mounting Evidence for Pain as a Neurological Disease and Parallels with Other Chronic Disease States | Pain Medicine | 2011 | 220 |
| 36 | Cohort Study of the Impact of High-dose Opioid Analgesics on Overdose Mortality | Pain Medicine | 2015 | 220 |
| 37 | Can Quantitative Sensory Testing Move Us Closer to Mechanism-Based Pain Management? | Pain Medicine | 2014 | 219 |
| 38 | Pain among Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom: Table 1 | Pain Medicine | 2006 | 218 |
| 39 | Chronic Pain in the Cancer Survivor: A New Frontier | Pain Medicine | 2007 | 216 |
| 40 | Comorbidities in Chronic Neuropathic Pain | Pain Medicine | 2004 | 211 |
| 41 | Chronic Pain, Depression, and Quality of Life: Correlations and Predictive Value of the SF-36 | Pain Medicine | 2003 | 209 |
| 42 | Do Prescription Monitoring Programs Impact State Trends in Opioid Abuse/Misuse? | Pain Medicine | 2012 | 208 |
| 43 | A Comprehensive Algorithm for Management of Neuropathic Pain | Pain Medicine | 2019 | 206 |
| 44 | Neuropathic Pain in Diabetes, Prediabetes and Normal Glucose Tolerance: The MONICA/KORA Augsburg Surveys S2 and S3 | Pain Medicine | 2009 | 201 |
| 45 | Risk Factors for Serious Prescription Opioid-Related Toxicity or Overdose among Veterans Health Administration Patients | Pain Medicine | 2014 | 201 |
| 46 | Sleep Disturbance and Nonmalignant Chronic Pain: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature | Pain Medicine | 2000 | 200 |
| 47 | Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels: Therapeutic Targets for Pain | Pain Medicine | 2009 | 200 |
| 48 | Barriers and Facilitators to Chronic Pain Self-Management: A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Patients with Comorbid Musculoskeletal Pain and Depression | Pain Medicine | 2009 | 197 |
| 49 | Epidemiology, Public Health Burden, and Treatment of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain: A Review | Pain Medicine | 2007 | 196 |
| 50 | Paraplegia Following Image-Guided Transforaminal Lumbar Spine Epidural Steroid Injection: Two Case Reports | Pain Medicine | 2009 | 195 |
