{"id":1071,"date":"2013-06-06T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2013-06-06T16:42:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T15:42:59","slug":"growing-pain-striving-for-quality-relevance-and-applicability-in-cochrane-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/2013\/06\/06\/growing-pain-striving-for-quality-relevance-and-applicability-in-cochrane-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing pain: striving for quality, relevance and applicability in Cochrane Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1073\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/files\/\/www\/vhosts\/bathblogs\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/621\/files\/2013\/06\/cochrane_annual_report_logo.jpg\" alt=\"cochrane_annual_report_logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"130\" \/>As The Cochrane Collaboration celebrates its 20th anniversary, we recall  the Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care (PaPaS) Review  Group's first published review, which looked at treating any acute or  chronic pain with any antiepileptic drug, at any dose. Already an update  of a 1995 review published in the BMJ, this 1998 Cochrane Review was  itself updated in 2005, and subsequently withdrawn in 2010. Although in the earlier versions we  attempted to differentiate neuropathic pain conditions such as painful  diabetic neuropathy or postherpetic neuralgia, there were too few  studies with too few patients treated with any one drug in any one  condition to afford any subtle insights. For the full editorial simply click on the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecochranelibrary.com\/details\/editorial\/4795981\/Growing-pain-striving-for-quality-relevance-and-applicability-in-Cochrane-Review.html\">http:\/\/www.thecochranelibrary.com\/details\/editorial\/4795981\/Growing-pain-striving-for-quality-relevance-and-applicability-in-Cochrane-Review.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Cochrane Collaboration is a unique partnership of the very best of  minds, pursuing answers to the most important of questions. We rarely  spend time looking back. This quick glance at history has reinforced how  important it is to leave our growing pains behind and focus on growing  the evidence base for pain. There are important societal questions that  require evidence. Headache, migraine, and musculoskeletal disorders  remain major problems for all societies. Neuropathic pain is a growing problem associated with ageing and the  increase in diabetes. Complex problems of iatrogenisis are emerging, not  least from opioid prescribing which is a particular problem that  will\u00a0require our serious attention in the future. Our first 15 years of  publishing have been no better than adequate. Consumers of our reviews  want us to do more. Patients encourage us to be more courageous. We want  to do more, and we can do more. We have plans for growth and we look  forward to growing together with our colleagues from across the  Collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As The Cochrane Collaboration celebrates its 20th anniversary, we recall the Cochrane Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care (PaPaS) Review Group's first published review, which looked at treating any acute or chronic pain with any antiepileptic drug, at any dose. Already...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brd"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/healthresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}