Clinical management in an evidence vacuum: pharmacological management of children with persistent pain

Gus Scott/University of Bath For evidence‐based practice to succeed we need a body of evidence that is large enough to offer precision, rigorous enough to inspire confidence, and direct enough to equitably represent all social groups. Yet in too many areas of clinical practice this remains an aspiration. In their landmark overview of reviews, Eccleston and colleagues present us with an arresting example of this problem.[1] Persistent pain in...