As just mentioned in another thread, click on the RSDSA Medical Articles Archieve webpage at http://www.rsds.org/2/library/articl...ive/index.html then scroll down to open any of the 4 articles under the heading "CRPS and Surgery." It's as good a place to start as any.

Mike

ps And be careful not to cite any articles co-authored by one Scott S. Reuben, M.D.:

March 11, 2009

Doctor’s Pain Studies Were Fabricated, Hospital Says

By GARDINER HARRIS

In what may be among the longest-running and widest-ranging cases of academic fraud, one of the most prolific researchers in anesthesiology fabricated much of the data underlying his research, said a spokeswoman for the hospital where he works.

The researcher, Dr. Scott S. Reuben, an anesthesiologist in Springfield, Mass., who practiced at Baystate Medical Center, fabricated data in some or all of the 21 journal articles dating from at least 1996, said Jane Albert, a spokeswoman for Baystate Health.

The reliability of dozens more articles he wrote is uncertain, and the common practice — supported by his studies — of giving patients aspirinlike drugs and neuropathic pain medicines after surgery instead of narcotics is now being questioned.

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Baystate investigators determined that Dr. Reuben had concocted data for 21 studies, and the health system asked the journals in which those studies were published to withdraw them.

Dr. Steve Shafer, the editor in chief of Anesthesia & Analgesia, which published many of the papers, said he was considering withdrawing any study in which Dr. Reuben served a pivotal role.

“He was one of the most prolific investigators in the area of postoperative pain management,” Dr. Shafer said. His fraud “sets back our knowledge in the field tremendously.” . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/he...0Reubin&st=cse