Evidence-based pain management and palliative care in issue one for 2007 of the Cochrane Library

The Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews is published quarterly. It now contains 3009 complete reviews, 1668 protocols of reviews and 5931 one page summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. In addition there are citations of 489,167 randomized controlled trials, 22 methodology reviews and 9048 cited papers in the Cochrane methodology register. The health technology assessment database contains 6358 citations. This edition of the Library contains 104 new reviews of which 6 have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine.