Evidence-based Pain Management and Palliative Care

ABSTRACT

The Cochrane library of systematic reviews is published quarterly as a DVD and monthly online (http://www.thecochranelibrary.com). The October 2014 issue (4th DVD for 2014) contains 6157 complete reviews, 2,353 protocols for reviews in production and 32,000 short summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. In addition, there are citations of 807,000 randomized controlled trials, and 15,700 cited papers in the Cochrane Methodology Register. The Health Technology Assessment database contains some 14,000 citations. Ninety-seven new reviews have been published in the previous 3 months of which five have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine. The impact factor of the Cochrane Library stands at 5.939. Readers are encouraged to access the full report for any articles of interest as only a brief commentary is provided.

KEYWORDS :

• acetaminophen
• paracetamol
• allopurinol
• antioxidants
• benzbromarone
• cancer pain
• children
• chronic pancreatitis
• codeine
• dietary supplements
• febuxostat
• fentanyl
• gout
• postoperative pain