Authors
Nanna B Finnerup, Nadine Attal, Simon Haroutounian, Ewan McNicol, Ralf Baron, Robert H Dworkin, Ian Gilron, Maija Haanpää, Per Hansson, Troels S Jensen, Peter R Kamerman, Karen Lund, Andrew Moore, Srinivasa N Raja, Andrew SC Rice, Michael Rowbotham, Emily Sena, Philip Siddall, Blair H Smith, Mark Wallace
Publication date
2015/2/1
Source
The Lancet Neurology
Volume
14
Issue
2
Pages
162-173
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Background
New drug treatments, clinical trials, and standards of quality for assessment of evidence justify an update of evidence-based recommendations for the pharmacological treatment of neuropathic pain. Using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE), we revised the Special Interest Group on Neuropathic Pain (NeuPSIG) recommendations for the pharmacotherapy of neuropathic pain based on the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Methods
Between April, 2013, and January, 2014, NeuPSIG of the International Association for the Study of Pain did a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised, double-blind studies of oral and topical pharmacotherapy for neuropathic pain, including studies published in peer-reviewed journals since January, 1966, and unpublished trials retrieved from ClinicalTrials.gov and websites of pharmaceutical …
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