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

The Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is published quarterly as a DVD but monthly online. The October issue for 2010 (3rd DVD for 2010) contains 4407 complete reviews, 1962 protocols for reviews in production, and 13,521 one-page summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. In addition there are citations of 635,000 randomized controlled trials, and 13,721 cited papers in the Cochrane methodology register. The health technology assessment database contains over 8900 citations. Ninety-eight new reviews have been published in the last 3 months of which nine have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]