PAIN
Volume 150, Issue 3 , Pages 386-389 , September 2010

“Evidence” in chronic pain – establishing best practice in the reporting of systematic reviews

  • R. Andrew Moore

      Affiliations

    • Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Level 6, West Wing, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU UK. Tel.: +44 1865 231512; fax: +44 1865 234539.
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  • Christopher Eccleston

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Pain Research, School for Health, The University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK
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  • Sheena Derry

      Affiliations

    • Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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  • Phillip Wiffen

      Affiliations

    • The UK Cochrane Centre, NHS R&D Programme, Summertown Pavilion, Middle Way, Oxford OX2 7LG, UK
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  • Rae F. Bell

      Affiliations

    • Pain Clinic/Regional Centre of Excellence in Palliative Care, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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  • Sebastian Straube

      Affiliations

    • Department of Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Göttingen, Waldweg 37, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
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  • Henry McQuay

      Affiliations

    • Pain Research and Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK
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  • for the ACTINPAIN writing group of the IASP Special Interest Group (SIG) on Systematic Reviews in Pain Relief and the Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Systematic Review Group editors

Received 15 March 2010 ,Revised 15 April 2010 ,Accepted 14 May 2010.

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