The Back Letter, any reviews here?

[pastafan]

I recently had two people recommend the publication The Back Letter http://journals.lww.com/backletter/Pages/default.aspx. It was described as the Cochrane of spine and pain. Any reviews from forum members?

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[Taus]

I had free access to this during residency and thought it was awesome. Not only for the analysis, but also for bringing up good articles that I would have otherwise missed, as they weren't in journals I consistently read.

 

[bedrock]

Dunno. Their conclusion after each studu is basically that nothing works for spine pain.

Guess they are like cochrane because that's what cochrane says about everything in medicine. "nothing works"

 

[mdvol]

I used to subscribe after getting it in fellowship. I like the quick reviews of articles out there to make me "think" but I agree, their conclusions were medications are not good, procedures are worse every time.