Evidence-Based Pain Management and Palliative Care in Issue Three for 2009 of The Cochrane Library.

The Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is published quarterly. Issue 3 2009 contains 3916 complete reviews, 1905 protocols for reviews in production, and 10,894 one-page summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. In addition, there are citations of 587,000 randomized controlled trials, and 11,800 cited papers in the Cochrane methodology register. The health technology assessment database contains 7947 citations. This edition of the Library contains 90 new reviews, of which 11 have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]