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An Evidence-based Resource For Pain Relief
* The first 'evidence-based' guide to effective pain treatments.
* Written by internationally renowned experts in the field.
* Provides invaluable information for all specialists working in pain relief.
* Clinicians involved in acute and chronic pain management.
* Palliative care specialists, anaesthesiologists.
Following the huge success of the hardback edition, this book has now been published in paperback. An Evidence-based Resource for Pain Relief is the first book of its kind to bring together the reviews of clinical trials, examining the evidence for the effectiveness of many of the interventions commonly used in pain relief. The book begins with a section of EBM methodology, including information on how to assess the evidence, how to find the papers, criteria by which to judge them, what data to extract, and how to then handle that data. The book is then divided into two main sections - acute pain and chronic pain, with each section presenting extensive reviews of many common treatments for managing pain, particularly drugs. The book will be valuable for the multidisciplinary professionals managing acute and chronic pain in primary and secondary care and for those commissioning that care. The lessons learned about design and conduct of clinical trials will also help those researching new and better treatments. The approach may be applicable to other fields which use subjective outcomes.
| Author: |
H. J. McQuay, R. A. Moore |
| Edition: |
1 |
| ISBN: |
0192630482 |
| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
| Binding: |
Paperbackback |
| Year Published: |
1999 |
| No. of Pages: |
270 |
| Back Cover: |
| Not Available |
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| Contents: |
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
PART I: Methodology
2. Finding all the relevant trials
3. Judging the quality of trials
4. Pain measurement, study design and validity
5. Estimating relative effectiveness
6. Combining data and interpreting the results
7. Exitsting systematic reviews
PART II: Acute Pain
8. Acute pain: introduction
9. Paracetamol with and without codeine in acute pain
10. Oral ibuprofen and diclofenac in postoperative pain
11. Comparing analgesic efficacy of NSAIDs given by different routes in acute and chronic pain
12. Topically applied non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
13. Injected morphine in postoperative pain
14. Dihydrocodeine in postoperative pain
15. Dextropropoxyphene in postoperative pain
16. Oral tramadol versus placebo, codeine, and combination analgesics
17. Pain relief with intra-articular morphine after knee surgery
18. Analgesic efficacy of peripheral opioids after knee surgery
19. Pre-emptive analgesia: a systematic review of clinical studies: 1950-94
20. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in acute postoperative pain
21. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in labour pain
22. Acute pain: conclusion
PART III: Chronic Pain
23. Chronic pain: introduction
24. Radiotherapy for painful bone metastases
25. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in chronic pain
26. Intravenous regional sympathetic blockade (IRSB) for reflex sympathetic dystrophy
27. Epidural corticosteroids for sciatica
28. Spinal cord stimulators for back pain
29. Steroid injections for shoulder disorders
30. Anticonvulsant drugs
31. Antidepressants in neuropathic pain
32. Systemic local anaesthetic-type drugs in chronic pain
33. Topical capsaicin
34. Chronic pain: conclusion
Index |
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| Review: |
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the conscientious, explicit, and sensible use of the current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients. The practice of EBM requires the integration of individual clinical expertise with the best available external clinical evidence from systematic research. The techniques of EBM now allow us to compare how well different pain relief interventions work for the same condition.
An Evidence-based Resource for Pain Relief is the first book of its kind to bring together the reviews of these trials, examining the evidence for the effectiveness of many of the interventions commonly used in pain relief. The book begins with a section of EBM methodology, including information on how to assess the evidence, how to find the papers, criteria by which to judge them, what data to extract, and how to then handle that data. The book is then divided into two main sections - acute pain and chronic pain, with each section presenting extensive reviews of many common treatments for managing pain, particularly drugs.
The book will be valuable for the multidisciplinary professionals managing acute and chronic pain in primary and secondary care, and for those commissioning that care. The lessons learned about the design and conduct of clinical trials will also help those researching new and better treatements. The approach may be applicable to other fields which use subjective outcomes.
'...should be purchased by all who have any interest in pain and its treatment... excellent'
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