Monthly media digest: April/May 2025
A digest of college news coverage for April/May 2025
A/Prof Mick Vagg joins call for The BMJ to retract a clinical practice guideline
More than 30 pain medicine societies are calling on The BMJ to retract a clinical practice guideline that advises against interventional procedures for chronic spine pain.
The guideline, part of the BMJ Rapid Recommendations series, recommends that procedures such as epidural injections of anaesthetic or steroids should not be offered to adults with chronic axial or radicular spine pain that is not associated with cancer or inflammatory arthropathy, outside of clinical trials.
It was based on a network meta-analysis, published in the same journal, which evaluated 81 trials covering nearly 8000 patients.
Associate Professor Michael Vagg told AusDoc (paywalled) on 24 April that he supported the calls to retract the guideline.
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