Evidence-based Pain Management and Palliative Care in July Issue for 2010 of the Cochrane Library

ABSTRACT

The Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is published quarterly. The July issue for 2010 contains 4309 complete reviews, 1935 protocols for reviews in production, and 12,893 one-page summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. In addition there are citations of 625,000 randomized controlled trials, and 13,320 cited papers in the Cochrane methodology register. The health technology assessment database contains over 8600 citations. Eighty-four new reviews have been published in the last 3 months, of which 8 have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine.

KEYWORDS :

• Acute low-back pain
• acute pain
• amputation
• bed rest
• benzydamine
• breast cancer
• chemotherapy
• children
• chronic constipation diclofenac
• exercise
• gabapentin
• ibuprofen
• indomethacin
• ketoprofen
• lactulose
• lymphedema
• nutritional support
• octreotide
• ovarian cancer
• palliative surgery
• phantom pain
• piroxicam
• polyethylene glycol
• sciatica
• stump pain
• topical NSAIDs
• transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)