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British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006 96(1):1-4; doi:10.1093/bja/aei295
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© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2006. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

EDITORIAL

Editorial I: Acute pain management: scientific evidence revisited

P. E. Macintyre1,*, S. Walker2, I. Power3 and S. A. Schug4

1 Adelaide, Australia
2 London, UK
3 Edinburgh, UK
4 Perth, Australia

* Corresponding author. E-mail: pamela.macintyre@adelaide.edu.au

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Acute Pain Management: Scientific Evidence1 was first published by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia in 1999. An editorial2 published the same year in the British Journal of Anaesthesia assessed the importance of this document along with Guidelines on the Use of NSAIDs in the Perioperative Period.3 It was noted that ‘there is still a need for properly conducted controlled clinical studies evaluating most areas of therapy in acute pain’ and that ‘guidelines can only remain valid for a relatively short period’ as the field of pain management is a rapidly evolving one.2

Since then, there has indeed been an enormous increase in the number of peer-reviewed articles relating to the treatment of acute pain, as well as a marked improvement in the quality of evidence available for acute pain therapies. Over the same period, there has also been both an increase in the complexity . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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