Effectiveness of Pharmacist-Led Medication Reviews in Improving Patient Outcomes in Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review Protocol

Steenstra IA Verbeek JH Heymans MW Prognostic factors for duration of sick leave in patients sick listed with acute low back pain: a systematic review of the literature. Occup Environ Med 2005; 62:851–60.

Hoy D March L Brooks P Measuring the global burden of low back pain. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol 2010; 24:155–65.

Freburger JK Holmes GM Agans RP The rising prevalence of chronic low back pain. Arch Intern Med 2009; 169:251–8.

Harkness EF Macfarlane GJ Silman AJ Is musculoskeletal pain more common now than 40 years ago?: two population-based cross-sectional studies. Rheumatology 2005; 44:890–5.

The British Pain Society. GfK NOP pain survey 2005. Available: www.britishpainsociety.org/media_surveys.htm (accessed December 12, 2011).

Committee on Advancing Pain Research, Care, and Education, Institute of Medicine. Relieving pain in America: a blueprint for transforming prevention, care, education and research. Washington (DC): The National Academies Press; 2011.

Hanlon JT Fillenbaum GG Studenski SA Factors associated with suboptimal analgesic use in community-dwelling elderly. Ann Pharmacother 1996; 30:739–44.

Accounts Commission for Scotland. Supporting prescribing in general practice. September 1999. Available: www.audit-scotland.gov.uk/docs/health/1999/nr_9909_prescribing_general_practice.pdf (accessed September 7, 2012).

Porteous T Bond CM Hannaford P How and why are non-prescription analgesics used in Scotland? Fam Pract 2005; 22:78–85.

Taskforce on Medicines Partnership and The National Collaborative Medicines Management Services Programme. Room for review. A guide to medication review: the agenda for patients, practitioners and managers. London (UK): Medicines Partnership; 2002.

McDermott ME Smith BH Elliott AM The use of medication for chronic pain in primary care, and the potential for intervention by a practice-based pharmacist. Fam Pract 2006; 23:46–52.

Phelan M Blenkinsopp A Foster NE Pharmacist-led medication review for knee pain in older adults: content, process and outcomes. Int J Pharm Pract 2008; 16:347–55.

Weitzel KW Presley DN Showalter ML Pharmacist-managed headache clinic. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2004; 61:2548–50.

Suh ES Bartlett G Inguanti M Folstad J. Evaluation of a pharmacist pain management education program and associated medication use in a palliative care population. Am J Health Syst Pharm 2004; 61:277–80.

Bennett MI Bagnall AM Raine G Educational interventions by pharmacists to patients with chronic pain: systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin J Pain 2011; 27:623–30.

Higgins JPT Green S , editors. Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions. Version 5.1.0 (updated March 2011). The Cochrane Collaboration, 2011. Available: www.cochrane-handbook.org/ (accessed September 21, 2012).

Karjalainen KA Malmivaara A van Tulder MW Multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for neck and shoulder pain among working age adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2003; 2:CD002194.

Moher D Liberati A Tetzlaff J Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. PLoS Med 2009; 6:e1000097.

International Association for the Study of Pain. Classification of chronic pain: descriptions of chronic pain syndromes and definitions of pain terms. Pain Suppl 1986; 3:S1–S226.

Cleeland CS Ryan KM. Pain assessment: global use of the Brief Pain Inventory. Ann Acad Med Singapore 1994; 23:129–38.

Ware JE The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). Conceptual framework and item selection. Med Care 1992; 30:473–83.

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised studies in meta-analyses. Available: www.ohri.ca/programs/clinical_epidemiology/oxford.htm (accessed December 12, 2011).

Hadi M Alldred D Briggs M Is pharmacist-led medication review effective for chronic pain management among adult patients? A systematic review. PROSPERO 2012:CRD42012001957. Available: www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.asp?ID=CRD42012001957 (accessed September 7, 2012).