Includes bibliographical references and index.

Systematic reviews : are we getting it right yet? / R. Andrew Moore -- Managing potential publication bias / R. Andrew Moore ... [et al.] -- Individual patient meta-analysis / R. Andrew Moore -- Industry bias / Sheena Derry -- Placebo and control event rate / Henry J. McQuay -- Adverse events / Sheena Derry -- Guidelines, guidance, and evidence / Kate Seers -- Basic science systematic reviews / Vesa Kontinen -- Treatment in postoperative pain : by procedure or by condition? / Francis Bonnet -- Is opioid sparing clinically relevant? / Nadia Elia and Martin R. Tramèr -- Challenges for practicing evidence-based perioperative medicine using systematic reviews : what we know, what is uncertain, and what we need to know / Peter Kranke -- What can we learn from NSAIDs, coxibs, and paracetamol evidence for acute pain? / Emmanuel Marret and Francis Bonnet -- Dose response / Henry J. McQuay -- Defining the importance of change in clinical trials of acute and chronic pain / Jodie Barden -- Chronic nonmalignant pain in the elderly : do opioids cause cognitive impairment? / Helen Gaskell -- Clinical trials in pediatric pain / Katri Hamunen -- Opioids in chronic noncancer pain : systematic reviews of efficacy and safety, what more is needed? / Eija Kalso -- Trial design of psychological treatments in chronic pain : what can we tell patients? / Stephen Morley -- Cannabinoids and analgesia, with special reference to neuropathic pain / Andrew S.C. Rice, Isobel Lever, and Roxaneh Zarnegar --

Epidemiology of chronic pain / Blair H. Smith and Nicola Torrance -- Cognitive-behavioral pain management : lessons learned / Amanda C. de C. Williams -- Trial design in cancer pain : oral opioids and the missing placebo / Rae F. Bell ... [et al.] -- What evidence do we have that the WHO ladder is effective in cancer pain? / Michael I. Bennett -- What we have learned about trials from systematic reviews / Henry J. McQuay -- Risk, presentation, and systematic reviews / R. Andrew Moore -- Why randomized controlled trials? : can other study designs be used with confidence to evaluate the effectiveness of complex interventions? / Kate Seers -- Decision making/care pathways/evidence-based policy making : why is it so difficult to get from evidence to practice? / Steen Møiniche -- Economics : delivering better health care? / Ceri J. Phillips -- Pain ladders, systematic reviews, and trials / Henry J. McQuay -- Research translation for systematic reviews into community practice: the Alberta HTA chronic pain ambassador program / Paul Taenzer ... [et al.].

"Presents invited papers from the 6th IASP Research Symposium, Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses in Pain, held in Spain in September 2006, organized by the International Collaboration on Evidence-Based Critical Care, Anaesthesia and Pain (ICECAP). Describes systematic reviews and meta-analyses that estimate the efficacy and harm of interventions in clinical trials of pain medications"--Provided by publisher.