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PAIN MANAGEMENT LAWSUIT
Pain management reports are often erroneous or misleading, says doctor
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January 15, 2009 – Undertreated pain is a worldwide lament and an increasingly popular subject among a rising number of magazines and medical journals. But according to one doctor who edits a journal on the subject, much of the published research behind pain management practices cannot be trusted.
“Journals, conferences, and Web sites in the pain management field are growing at an alarming rate – and much of the information presented is often erroneous or misleading,” said the editor of Pain Treatment Topics, Dr. Stewart B. Leavitt, who randomly assessed a wide range of research articles on the medical field’s newest pet subject, pain management.
Other critics of medical literature have asserted that many wrong, or at least unreliable, therapeutic answers are being generated due to biased studies that sometimes use inappropriate analyses.
Investigations of reputable medical journals over the years have found similar shortcomings:
- In one examination, nearly one-third of randomly assessed research articles reported either exaggerated or false claims;
- Up to 90% of all articles in the journals examined contained errors ranging from omissions of crucial information to significant design flaws affecting their validity;
- Abstracts accompanying journal articles often receive the greatest attention by readers; yet, an extensive review found that up to 68% of the abstracts contained data that were inconsistent with, or absent from, the main body of the articles.
These findings are recognized by Leavitt, who concludes that healthcare providers, the news media, and the public in general need to be more skeptical about what they read on the subject of pain management therapies.
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