A Qualitative Systematic Review of Head-to-Head Randomized Controlled Trials of Oral Analgesics in Neuropathic Pain

BACKGROUND: Neuropathic pain (NP) encompasses many difficult-to-treat disorders. There are few head-to-head, comparative, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of drugs for NP in different analgesic categories, or of different drugs within a category, despite many placebo-controlled RCTs for individua...

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Main Authors: C Peter N Watson, Ian Gilron, Jana Sawynok
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Pain Research and Management
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/382781