Gabapentin versus tricyclic antidepressants for diabetic neuropathy and post-herpetic neuralgia: discrepancies between direct and indirect meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials

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Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2009
CRD SUMMARY: This review concluded that there was no difference in pain relief between gabapentin and tricyclic antidepressants in patients with diabetic neuropathy or post-herpetic neuralgia, although direct evidence was limited. The review was well conducted and these findings are likely to be reliable.
Epistemonikos ID: f330109a22fa22a04b1ce515cc33ef51352f3741
First added on: Jun 07, 2012