title: Evidence-based pain management and palliative care in issue one for 2010 of the Cochrane Library.
abstract: ABSTRACT The Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is published quarterly as a DVD and also has been updated monthly online since January 2010. Issue 1 for 2010 contains 4125 complete reviews, 1924 protocols for reviews in production, and 11,887 one-page summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. In addition, there are citations of 608,000 randomized controlled trials, and 12,700 cited papers in the Cochrane methodology register. The health technology assessment database contains over 7700 citations. This edition of the Library contains 98 new reviews, of which 7 that have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine are described.
authors.affiliation: Oxford Regional Pain Relief Unit at Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX2 7LG, United Kingdom. phil.wiffen@pru.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Philip J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Wiffen
mesh_terms: D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D012196:Review Literature as Topic; D012693:Serial Publications