The purpose of An Evidence.Based Resource for Pain Relief is to provide a useful resource for clinicians on the management of pain. The efforts of McQuay and Moore represent a huge step forward in the struggle to make sense of the evidence in pain management. The book is a collection of systematic reviews of a spectrum of pain management problems. The first part of the volume is the most important because it guides the reader step by step through the process of how pain studies are done, the system used by …