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Acupuncture for migraine
Acupuncture for neuropathic pain in adults (title stage)
Acupuncture for tension-type headache (title stage)
Acupuncture for the treatment of post-operative pain (protocol stage)
Acupuncture-point stimulation for chemotherapy-induced nausea or vomiting
Analgesics for postoperative pain after tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in children (protocol stage)
Anticonvulsant drugs for acute and chronic pain
Anticonvulsant drugs for migraine prophylaxis
Antidepressants for central pain (protocol stage)
Antidepressants for neuropathic pain
Aromatherapy and massage for symptom relief in patients with cancer
As required analgesic prescriptions versus fixed schedule analgesic prescriptions for treating postoperative pain (title stage)
Behavioral therapies for migraine (protocol stage)
Benzodiazepines and related drugs for insomnia in palliative care
Benzodiazepines for the relief of breathlessness in malignant and advanced non-malignant diseases in adults (title stage)
Bisphosphonates for the relief of pain secondary to bone metastases
Botulinum toxin for myofascial pain syndromes (title stage)
Botulinum toxin for the prevention of migraine headaches (title stage)
Buprenorphine for cancer pain (protocol stage)
Calcitonin for metastatic bone pain
Carbamazepine for acute and chronic pain
Celiac plexus block for pancreatic cancer pain (title stage)
Chinese medicinal herbs for migraine (title stage)
Clinical hypnosis for acute pain in adults (protocol stage)
Clinical hypnosis for chronic pain in adults (title stage)
Codeine, alone and with paracetamol (acetaminophen), for cancer pain (protocol stage)
Comparative efficacy of epidural, subarachnoid, and intracerebroventricular opioids in patients with pain due to cancer
Comparison of clinical efficacy of serotonin receptor antagonists in highly emetogenic chemotherapy (protocol stage)
Corticosteroids for the resolution of malignant bowel obstruction in advanced gynaecological and gastrointestinal cancer
Updated
Cyclobenzaprine for the treatment of myofascial pain (protocol stage)
Diclofenac for acute pain in children (protocol stage)
Dipyrone for acute primary headaches
Droperidol for treatment of nausea and vomiting in palliative care patients (protocol stage)
Drug interventions for the management of hiccup (title stage)
Drug therapy for anxiety in palliative care
Drug therapy for delirium in terminally ill patients
Drug therapy for preventing and treating post-dural puncture headache (protocol stage)
Drug therapy for the management of cancer related fatigue
Drugs for preventing migraine headaches in children
Drugs for the treatment of fatigue in palliative care (protocol stage)
Drugs for treating acute migraine headaches in children and adolescents (protocol stage)
Dural puncture needle types and techniques for preventing post-dural puncture headache (protocol stage)
Educational interventions for cancer-related fatigue in adults (title stage)
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of home based palliative care services for terminal illness (title stage)
Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, an omega-3 fatty acid from fish oils) for the treatment of cancer cachexia
withdrawn
Eletriptan for acute migraine
EMLA and Amethocaine for reduction of children's pain associated with needle insertion
Epidural analgesia for pain relief following hip or knee replacement
Epidural blood patching for preventing and treating post-dural puncture headache
New
Exercise for the management of cancer-related fatigue in adults
Expressive writing as a treatment for chronic pain (title stage)
Fentanyl for chronic pain (protocol stage)
Fentanyl for pain relief in burn patients (title stage)
Feverfew for preventing migraine
Flunarizine for the prevention of migraine (protocol stage)
Frovatriptan for acute migraine in adults (title stage)
Gabapentin for acute and chronic pain
Haloperidol for treatment of nausea and vomiting in palliative care patients (protocol stage)
Home-based palliative care for adults with cancer (protocol stage)
Homeopathy for adverse effects of cancer management (protocol stage)
Hydromorphone for acute and chronic pain
Hypnosis for procedural pain in children (title stage)
New
Interventions for improving palliative care for older people living in nursing care homes (protocol stage)
Interventions for managing fatigue and weight loss in adults with advanced progressive illness (title stage)
Interventions for noisy breathing in patients near to death
Interventions for sexual dysfunction following treatments for cancer
Interventions for the management of arachnoiditis (title stage)
Interventions for the treatment of metastatic extradural spinal cord compression (protocol stage)
Interventions to support children through bereavement (protocol stage)
Interventions used by accident and emergency departments for management of pain for simple fractures in children (title stage)
Intranasal dihydroergotamine (DHE) for acute migraine (title stage)
Intrathecal opioids for post-operative pain relief in adults (title stage)
Ketamine as an adjuvant to opioids for cancer pain
Lamotrigine for acute and chronic pain
Laxatives for the management of constipation in palliative care patients
Lidocaine for pain relief in burn injured patients
Local anesthetic sympathetic blockade for complex regional pain syndrome
Long-term opioid management for chronic noncancer pain (protocol stage)
New
Medically assisted hydration for palliative care patients
Medically assisted nutrition for palliative care patients (protocol stage)
Megestrol acetate for treatment of anorexia-cachexia syndrome
Meperidine (pethidine) for postoperative pain (title stage)
Methadone for cancer pain
Methadone for chronic non-malignant pain (title stage)
Metoclopramide for chronic nausea in palliative care patients with cancer in adults (title stage)
New
Mu-opioid antagonists for opioid-induced bowel dysfunction
Muscle relaxants versus placebo for tension-type headache prophylaxis (protocol stage)
Music for pain relief
New
Music therapy for end-of-life care (protocol stage)
Naproxen for acute migraine (title stage)
Nebulised frusemide for the palliation of breathlessness in terminal illness (title stage)
Neurokinin-1 receptor antagonists for prevention of chemotherapy-related nausea and vomiting (protocol stage)
Neuroleptics for acute and chronic pain (protocol stage)
Nimesulide for the management of postoperative pain (title stage)
Non-invasive physical treatments for chronic/recurrent headache
Non-invasive physical treatments of myofascial pain (protocol stage)
New
Non-pharmacological interventions for breathlessness in advanced stages of malignant and non-malignant diseases
Nonpharmacological interventions for needle-related procedural pain and post-operative pain in neonates and infants. (protocol stage)
Normobaric and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for migraine and cluster headache (protocol stage)
NSAIDS or paracetamol, alone or combined with opioids, for cancer pain
Nutrition support for bone marrow transplant patients
Nutritional screening for improving professional practice for patient outcomes in hospital and primary care settings (protocol stage)
Opioid switching to improve pain relief and drug tolerability
Opioids for neuropathic pain
Opioids for the management of breakthrough (episodic) pain in cancer patients
Opioids for the palliation of breathlessness in terminal illness
Oral morphine for cancer pain
Oral sumatriptan for acute migraine
Oxycodone for cancer-related pain (protocol stage)
Oxygen therapy for dyspnoea in adults (protocol stage)
Pain management for sickle cell disease
Pain relief for femoral sheath removal in interventional cardiology patients (protocol stage)
Parasympathomimetic drugs for the treatment of salivary gland dysfunction due to radiotherapy
Parenteral corticosteroids for acute migraine (protocol stage)
Parenteral dihydroergotamine (DHE) for acute migraine (protocol stage)
Parenteral metoclopramide for acute migraine (protocol stage)
Parenteral phenothiazines (chlorpromazine, prochlorperazine) for acute migraine (title stage)
Patient controlled opioid analgesia versus conventional opioid analgesia for postoperative pain
Patient positioning and braces for pain relief and spinal stability in metastatic cord compression (title stage)
Perioperative ketamine for acute postoperative pain
Peripheral nerve blocks for postoperative pain after major knee surgery (title stage)
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for cough in malignant disease. (title stage)
Pharmacological management for prevention of phantom limb pain (protocol stage)
Pharmacotherapeutic interventions for treating phantom limb pain (protocol stage)
Pleurodesis for malignant pleural effusions
Posture and fluids for preventing post-dural puncture headache
Pre-incisional medication for postoperative pain (protocol stage)
New
Pregabalin for acute and chronic pain (protocol stage)
Prevention and treatment interventions for nausea and vomiting during initiation of chronic opioid therapy (protocol stage)
Prevention and treatment of constipation in chronically ill children or children undergoing palliative care (protocol stage)
Propranolol for migraine prophylaxis
Psychological interventions for needle-related procedural pain and distress in children and adolescents
Psychological therapies for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents
Psychological therapies for the management of chronic pain in adults (excluding headache) (title stage)
Psychosocial interventions for reducing fatigue during cancer treatment in adults (protocol stage)
New
Psychotherapy for depression among incurable cancer patients
Radioisotopes for metastatic bone pain
Radiotherapy for the palliation of painful bone metastases
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) for the prevention of migraine (title stage)
withdrawn
Rizatriptan for acute migraine
Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for preventing migraine and tension-type headaches
Selenium for alleviating the side effects of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery in cancer patients
Single dose dextropropoxyphene, alone and with paracetamol (acetaminophen), for postoperative pain
Single dose dihydrocodeine for acute postoperative pain
Single dose dipyrone for acute postoperative pain
Single dose dipyrone for acute renal colic pain
Single dose intraarticular morphine for pain control after knee athroscopy (title stage)
Single dose oral aspirin for acute pain
Single dose oral celecoxib for postoperative pain
Single dose oral codeine for acute postoperative pain in adults (title stage)
Single dose oral diclofenac for postoperative pain
Single dose oral diflunisal for acute postoperative pain in adults (title stage)
Single dose oral etodolac for acute postoperative pain in adults (title stage)
Single dose oral etoricoxib for postoperative pain (protocol stage)
Single dose oral flurbiprofen for acute postoperative pain in adults (title stage)
Single dose oral ibuprofen and diclofenac for postoperative pain
Single dose oral indometacin for the treatment of acute postoperative pain
Single dose oral ketoprofen and dexketoprofen for acute postoperative pain in adults (title stage)
Single dose oral lornoxicam for acute postoperative pain in adults (title stage)
Single dose oral lumiracoxib for postoperative pain
Single dose oral naproxen and naproxen sodium for acute postoperative pain
Single dose oral nefopam for acute postoperative pain in adults (title stage)
Single dose oral paracetamol (acetaminophen) for postoperative pain
Single dose oral rofecoxib for postoperative pain
Single dose oxycodone and oxycodone plus paracetamol (acetominophen) for acute postoperative pain
Single dose paracetamol (acetaminophen), with and without codeine, for postoperative pain
Single dose piroxicam for acute postoperative pain
New
Single dose propacetamol or IV paracetamol for postoperative pain (protocol stage)
Spinal cord stimulation for chronic pain
Spiritual or religious interventions for patients with advanced disease (title stage)
Supportive care for patients with gastrointestinal cancer
Surgery for the resolution of symptoms in malignant bowel obstruction in advanced gynaecological and gastrointestinal cancer
Sympathectomy for neuropathic pain
Systemic administration of local anesthetic agents to relieve neuropathic pain
Topical capsaicin for chronic neuropathic pain (title stage)
Topical lidocaine for the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia
Topical NSAIDs for acute pain in adults (title stage)
Topical NSAIDS for chronic muskuloskeletal pain in adults (title stage)
Topical opioids for painful cutaneous ulcers in palliative care (title stage)
Topical rubefacients for acute and chronic pain (title stage)
Touch therapies for pain relief in children and adults (protocol stage)
Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation (TENS) for cancer pain in adults (protocol stage)
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for chronic pain
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for post amputation limb pain (title stage)
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for acute pain (protocol stage)
Treatments for chronic non cancer pain in patients with opioid dependance (title stage)
Treatments for opioid dependence in patients with chronic non cancer pain (title stage)
Tricyclic antidepressants for the prevention of migraine and tension-type headache (protocol stage)
Whole brain radiotherapy for the treatment of multiple brain metastases