title: [Practice guidelines for neuropathic pain management].
abstract: Neuropathic pain (NP) is a heterogeneous entity with wide diversity of symptoms. Despite the controversies regarding its definition and classification, which difficult its epidemiology, it has been estimated that 4 million people, in USA develop NP.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  A task force was created to generate a series of recommendations which facilitate the decision making and therapeutic approach of this kind of pain.
  
  
  METHODS
  A search of medical literature was made in different electronic data bases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, COCHRANE); after this search we conducted three work-sessions and evaluated the evidence regarding the diagnosis and treatment of pain in painful diabetic poli-neuropathy, post-herpetic neuralgia, and trigeminal neuralgia were evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found 329 documents for further analysis, and with the aid of the literature results we generate this practice guidelines.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, México, DF. uriahguevara@yahoo.com.mx
authors.forename: Uriah
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Guevara-López
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Covarrubias-Gómez
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: García-Ramos
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hernández-Jiménez
mesh_terms: D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D051474:Neuralgia, Postherpetic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000209:etiology*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014277:Trigeminal Neuralgia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*