Evidence-Based Pain Management and Palliative Care in the April Issue 2010 of The Cochrane Library.

The Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is published monthly online and in a DVD format four times a year. The April 2010 issue contains 6049 complete reviews, 1924 protocols for reviews in production, and 11887 one-page summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. In addition, there are citations of over 608,000 randomized controlled trials, and 12,700 cited papers in the Cochrane methodology register. The health technology assessment database contains over 7700 citations. This edition of the Library contains 91 new reviews, of which 9 have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]