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> From: bandoemail <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed May 21, 2003  09:01:41 Europe/London
> To: BandoApr <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: What's new in April
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> What's new in Bandolier in April 2003
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> If you copy the web address 
> http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/whatnew.html into the address box of 
> your browser and click, or just click here, it will take you straight 
> to Bandolier's "What's New" page, with a click-through to each story. 
>  Below we tell you what you will find there. Bandolier does not send 
> out spam emails, nor do we give your email addresses to anyone else. 
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> Bandolier's Little Book of Pain is due out in June. Information about 
> it and how to order it are on the Oxford University Press site at 
> http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-263247-7
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> Bandolier 110 (April 2003)
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> DVTs and all that (incidence, risk factors, travel as a risk factor 
> and aspirin for preventing DVT while flying) Mindstretcher - Checking 
> out systematic reviews (a study from the UK HTA confirms that 
> inadequate randomisation is important in bias, but unpublished 
> information makes not a jot of difference)
> •   Does unpublished information make a difference? (using information 
> provided to FDA but not elsewhere published, we find, again, that 
> published and unpublished studies give the same result)
> •   Mindstretcher - estimating relative efficacy (indirect studies give 
> the same results as direct studies, and may be better. No surprise 
> there, then.)
> •   Topical NSAIDs (they work in acute and chronic painful conditions, 
> with low NNTs, according to answers from a systematic review)
> •   Nicotine Replacement Therapy OTC (the NNT compared with placebo was 
> 18, and OTC NRT was no better or worse than prescribed NRT)
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> Bandolier Extra
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> Acute pain (a 22-page downloadable essay on the background to acute 
> pain trials, how much there is, systematic reviews in acute pain, what 
> works, what doesn't, relative analgesic efficacy, and management 
> issues, only available as a PDF).
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> Bandolier Knowledge
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> •   Dutasteride for BPH
> •   Step-down treatment in BPH
> •   How men rate symptom score changes
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> Needlestick injuries
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> •   Multifocused interventions to reduce sharps injuries
> •   Sharps containers reduce injuries
> •   Needlestick injuries in house officers
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