Systematic reviews in pain research
Subtitle: methodology refined
By: editors, Henry J. McQuay, Eija Kalso, R. Andrew Moore.
Contributors: McQuay, H. J.; Kalso, Eija, 1955-; Moore, R. Andrew 1947-
Publisher: IASP Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780931092695
Subjects: Pain -- Chemotherapy -- Evaluation -- Congresses; Analgesics -- Evaluation -- Congresses; Systematic reviews (Medical research) -- Congresses; Meta-analysis -- Congresses; Pain -- drug therapy; Analgesics -- therapeutic use; Clinical Trials; Meta-Analysis; Review Literature
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Presents invited papers from the 6th IASP Research Symposium, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in Pain, held in Spain in September 2006, organized by the International Collaboration on Evidence-Based Critical Care, Anaesthesia and Pain (ICECAP). Describes systematic reviews and meta-analyses that estimate the efficacy and harm of interventions in clinical trials of pain medications"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Systematic reviews : are we getting it right yet? / R. Andrew Moore; title: Managing potential publication bias / R. Andrew Moore ... [et al.]; title: Individual patient meta-analysis / R. Andrew Moore; title: Industry bias / Sheena Derry; title: Placebo and control event rate / Henry J. McQuay; title: Adverse events / Sheena Derry; title: Guidelines, guidance, and evidence / Kate Seers; title: Basic science systematic reviews / Vesa Kontinen; title: Treatment in postoperative pain : by procedure or by condition? / Francis Bonnet; title: Is opioid sparing clinically relevant? / Nadia Elia and Martin R. Tramèr; title: Challenges for practicing evidence-based perioperative medicine using systematic reviews : what we know, what is uncertain, and what we need to know / Peter Kranke; title: What can we learn from NSAIDs, coxibs, and paracetamol evidence for acute pain? / Emmanuel Marret and Francis Bonnet; title: Dose response / Henry J. McQuay; title: Defining the importance of change in clinical trials of acute and chronic pain / Jodie Barden; title: Chronic nonmalignant pain in the elderly : do opioids cause cognitive impairment? / Helen Gaskell; title: Clinical trials in pediatric pain / Katri Hamunen; title: Opioids in chronic noncancer pain : systematic reviews of efficacy and safety, what more is needed? / Eija Kalso; title: Trial design of psychological treatments in chronic pain : what can we tell patients? / Stephen Morley; title: Cannabinoids and analgesia, with special reference to neuropathic pain / Andrew S.C. Rice, Isobel Lever, and Roxaneh Zarnegar; title: Epidemiology of chronic pain / Blair H. Smith and Nicola Torrance; title: Cognitive-behavioral pain management : lessons learned / Amanda C. de C. Williams; title: Trial design in cancer pain : oral opioids and the missing placebo / Rae F. Bell ... [et al.]; title: What evidence do we have that the WHO ladder is effective in cancer pain? / Michael I. Bennett; title: What we have learned about trials from systematic reviews / Henry J. McQuay; title: Risk, presentation, and systematic reviews / R. Andrew Moore; title: Why randomized controlled trials? : can other study designs be used with confidence to evaluate the effectiveness of complex interventions? / Kate Seers; title: Decision making/care pathways/evidence-based policy making : why is it so difficult to get from evidence to practice? / Steen Møiniche; title: Economics : delivering better health care? / Ceri J. Phillips; title: Pain ladders, systematic reviews, and trials / Henry J. McQuay; title: Research translation for systematic reviews into community practice: the Alberta HTA chronic pain ambassador program / Paul Taenzer ... [et al.].